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"  Beaching  the  Af asses  and  //ora  it  is  Done  " — 
Proceedings  of  the  Fifth  Cornvntion  of  Christian 
Workers  in  the  United  States  and  Canada,  from 
which  the  selections  in  this  booklet  are  made,  can 
be  obtained  by  addressing  the  Bureau  of  Supplies, 
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PREFACE    AND    INTRODUCTION. 


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While  spending  a  few  days  recently  in  evangelistic  work  witn  a  well  known 
evangelist  I  was  greatly  impressed  with  the  need  of  some  printed  help  containing 
more  definite  instruction  than  anything  I  then  knew  of  which  could  be  distributed 
among  Christian  people  who  are  interested  and  desire  to  engage  personally  in  the 
work  of  winning  souls.  Such  a  help  ought  not,  it  appeared  to  me,  to  be  pre- 
pared as  a  book  of  instruction  or  text  book  with  more  or  less  dry  deta'ls,  but  so 
arranged,  and  with  incident  and  illustration,  that  it  would  be  read  with  interest  as 
well  as  a  means  of  gathering  information,  I  was  also  much  impressed  in  ob- 
serving how  few  Christians  there  were  among  the  hundreds  who  attended  these 
meetings  who  would  engage,  in  response  to  the  request  of  the  evangelist,  in 
personal  effort  with  those  who  were  not  Christians,  and  yet  there  seemed  to  be 
great  willingness  to  do  this  work.  The  difficulty  seemed  to  be  more  a  want  of 
knowledge  how  to  do  the  work,  how  to  approach  unconverted  persons  am!  what 
to  say,  but.  above  all,  there  appeared  to  be  a  need  of  what  is  commonly  spoken  of 
in  the  phraseology  of  Christian  life  and  work  as  "assurance"  and  personal 
spiritual  power. 

While  thinkmg  and  praying  about  this  matter,  the  thought  came  to  mi  that 
at  the  Fifth  Convention  of  Christian  Workers  in  the  United  States  and  Caiada, 
held  in  Hartford,' Connecticut,  ?<ovember,  1890,  there  were  a  large  number  of 
incidents,  suggestions,  Scripture  texts,  statements  concerning  the  power  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  exhortations,  etc.,  relating  to  this  very  matter— personal  and  indi- 
vidual Christian  effort— brought  out  from  time  to  time  in  a  very  clear  and  in»  cr- 
esting way  by  speakers,  who  were  well  qualified  to  speak  on  such  a  subject.  As 
Secretary  of  the  Committee  under  whose  auspices  the  Convention  was  helJ,  I 
had  edited  the  stenographic  report  which  was  just  coming  from  the  press  i-nder 
the  title  of  "  Reaching  the  Masses  and  How  it  is  Done."  It  occurred  t  j  me  that 
I  cauld  make  selections  from  this  book  giving  verbatim  the  words  of  siicakere  on 
"  Personal  Christian  Work  ;  Why  and  How."  Such  a  pamphlet  or  booklet  could 
be  printed  at  a  nominal  sun  and  widely  distributed  among  Christians,  many  of 
whom  might  be  instructed,  inspired  and  led  out  into  a  large  and  blessed  field 
of  usefulness  in  personal  Christian  effort. 

The  addresses,  discussions,  questions,  answers,  etc.,  of  the  book  or  Report, 
from  which  these  selections  are  taken,  are  put  together  in  the  book  itself  in  a 
conversational  and  informal  style  so  as  to  avoid  the  dullnes  and  statistical  dry- 
ness of  ordinary  convention  reports,  a  matter  of  the  very  greatest  importance. 
This  book  or  pamphlet  follows  the  style  of  "  Reaching  the  Masses,"  and  I  believe 


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It  will  so  add  to  its  interest  as  to  largely  increas«;  its  usefulness.  At  the  same 
time  It  must  be  borne  in  mind  that  the  selections  are  detached  sentences,  parts  of 
Convention  addresses,  questions,  etc. 

In  making  the  selections  I  have  taken  the  book  page  by  page  and  selected 
not  all  the  references,  statements,  etc.  bearing  upon  personal  Christian  W(Tk,  but 
nuch  portions  as  I  thought  would  be  most  helpful.  It  is  very  interesting  to  me 
to  note  how  aptly  incident  and  illustration,  exhortation,  warnmg  and  encourage- 
ment, and  Scripture  texts  are  interwoven  in  the  pages.  A  more  methodical  and 
logical  arrangement  would  have  put  into  separate  chapters  the  matter  relating  to 
the  various  subjects,  but  I  believe  that  the  arrangement,  which  I  have  adopted 
will  be  more  interesting  and  helpful,  and  among  other  reasons,  because  it  is  out 
of  the  ordinary  and  precise  way.  It  is  suggestive  that  in  this  arrangement  the 
very  first  selection  bears  upon  the  necessity  of  •'  starting  right  " — putting  away 
sin,  of  having  no  prejudices,but  seeing  the  Christ  in  a  man  and  not  some  trifling 
unimportant  saying,  way  or  manner,  which  after  all  is  outside,  and  without  real  con- 
nection or  importance,  and  of  having  the  Spirit  which  is  also  the  glorious  privilege 
of  those  who  work  "  In  His  Name."  It  is  notewonhy  also  that  the  very  last  selection 
— made,  of  course,  because  it  was  the  last  appropriate  passage  in  the  book — is 
from  the  Word  itself,  a  command  and  prophecy  or  promise  to  the  one  who  reads 
and  obeys  and  to  whom  this  little  book  may  open  a  door  into  the  "  joy  of  the 
Lord." 

I  very  much  desire  also  that  this  booklet  "  Personal  Christian  Work  ;  Why 
and  How,"  may  prove  an  introduction  for  "  Reaching  the  Masses  and  How  it  is 
Done,"  from  which  the  selections  are  made,  and  that  many  who  read  it  may  be 
led  on  to  a  more  full  and  complete  knowledge  of  ways  and  means,  which  will  be 
found  in  this  latter  book,  which  is  both  a  storehouse  of  facts  and  methods  of 
Christian  work  and  a  wonder-story  of  God's  doings  in  these  latter  days.  This 
book,  I  may  say  in  a  word,  contains  four  hundred  and  sixty  pages  of  the 
same  size  and  printed  in  the  same  type,  paper,  etc  ,  as  this  pamphlet.  It  con- 
tains cuts  of  three  different  Gospel  wagons,  Gospel-tent,  'jortraits  of  speakers, 
plans  of  a  great  modern  city  mission  building — the  new  Vanderbilt  Mission,  43d 
St.,  New  York  city, — portrait  of  group  of  boys  in  a  Boys'  Club,  etc.,  etc.  I  am 
willing  to  take  the  responsibility  of  strongly  recommending  that  each  reader  of 
this  booklet  obtain  a  copy  of  "  Reaching  the  Masses  and  How  it  is  Done,"  as  I 
am  confident  that  any  one  doing  so  will  be  greatly  instructed,  inspired  and  en- 
couraged in  this  great  work  of  the  Lord  Jesus  through  His  servants  among  the 
lost. 

By  referring  to  the  appendix,  the  reader  will  find  a  brief  sketch  of  the  Com- 
mittee and  those  associated  with  them  under  whose  auspices  the  Conventions  are 
held  and  of  whose  fifth  assembly  "  Reaching  the  Masses  and  How  it  is  Done," 
is  the  report,  also  brief  notes  concerning  the  different  speakers  who  are  men- 
tioned in  this  pamphlet  and  a  list  of  some  of  the  principle  subjects  in  the  Re- 
ports of  the  several  Conventions. 

I  have  had  it  in  mind  to  add  a  word  to  this  preface  and  introduction  con- 
cerning the  need  of  p  ..sonal  Christian  effort.  Why  such  work  should  be  under- 
taken is  set  forth  sufficiently  in  the  booklet  itself,  and  whatever  is  there  said  or 
might  be  added  here  is  of  secondary  importance  and  a  mere  setting  to  the  words 


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PREFACE  ANI»   INTRODUCTION. 

of  the  Master  Himself.  "  Go  ye  into  all  the  world  and  preach  the  Gospel  to  every 
creature." 

The  need  of  such  work  is  implied  in  this  command,  and  it  is  unquestionably 
a  part  of  the  obligation  of  every  Christian  to  preach  the  Gospel,  using  such  talent 
and  opportunity  as  may  be  given  in  winning  a  lost  world  to  a  knowledge  of  the 
Saviour  of  men.  Men  are  not  saved  in  an  abstract  or  general  way  by  a  church  or  a 
body  of  Christians  associating  themselves  together.  They  must  be  saved  singly, 
one  by  one  and  by  face-to-face,  hand-to-hand  personal  work.  This  is  what  I 
believe  is  meant  by  the  Command  of  Christ,  and  the  disregard  of  which  has 
resulted  in  leaving  over  forty  millions  in  the  United  States  alone  outside  of  the 
church  of  the  Lord  Jesus.  It  is  my  prayer  that  this  little  book  may  do  some- 
thing in  arousing  those  who  have  hitherto  considered  this  obligation  lightly  and 
directing  others  who  arc  willing  to  take  up  the  "  light  burden "  of  personal 
Christian  effort. 


New  Haven,  Conn.,  June,  1891. 


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WHY  AND  HOW. 


STARTING  RIGHT.  :• 

1  was  walking  with  our  drar  Brother  Clarke  this  morning  and  we  were  talk- 
ing over  mission  experiences.  It  always  makes  us  happy  to  talk  with  him.  He 
was  telling  about  a  poor  brother,  who  got  saved,  and  atx)ut  his  attempts  to  tell  a 
truth  from  the  Word.  He  said  this  brother's  opportunities  had  not  been  very 
good ;  his  knowledge  of  reading  and  writing  was  limited,  and  he  made  some  very 
queer  mistakes,  but  sometimes  his  mistakes  contained  great  truths.  He  was 
trying  to  say  this  text,  "  Let  us  lay  aside  every  weight,  and  the  sin  which  doth  so 
easily  beset  us,"  and  he  said,  "  Let  us  lay  aside  every  weight,  and  the  sin  that  i>o 
easily  upsets  us."  That  is  what  we  want  to  do  this  morning.  We  want  to  lay 
aside  every  v/eight  and  the  sin  that  easily  upsets  us.  There  is  a  great  truth  in 
that,  a  great  underlying  truth.  We  want  to  start  right.  If  there  is  anything 
between  us  and  the  Lord,  let  us  lay  aside  every  weight  and  sin  that  so  easily  up- 
sets us. 

We  want  to  have  no  prejudices.  My  dear  brother,  who  was  walking  with  me 
this  morning  said,  "  I  have  learned  to  look  for  Jesus  in  a  man.  I  do  not  look  for 
his  faults  or  the  differences  between  him  and  me.  I  know,  that,  if  he  is  a  saved 
man,  there  lives  in  him  the  Son  of  God,  and,  if  I  can  see  Jesus  in  him,  I  am 
satisfied. 

That  blessed  Spirit  can  come  and  live  and  abide  n  us,  and,  then,  as  we  realize 
it  and  believe  it,  out  from  us  flow  the  rivers  of  living  water.  And,  glory  to  God! 
He  will  flow  through  the  poorest  and  the  weakest.  I  think  He  loves  to  flow  out 
of  weakness.  It  seems  to  me  that  the  greatest  blessings  I  have  seen  is  where  I 
have  sown  some  seed  in  weakness,  and  there  has  not  been  thought,  hope, 
expecution  or  anything  else,  yet  the  Lord  has  taken  it,  and  it  has  all  blosson?-  i 
out. —  W.  H.  Hawlahd,  pages  7,  9,  10. 


CHIEF  THINGS. 

First,  let  us  magnify  Jesus;  let  us  magnify  Jesus.  .„ 

Second,  let  us  forget  ourselves. 

Let  us  try  to  help  the  weaker  brethren. 

Fourth,  let  us  keep  our  eyes  always  unto  the  Lord.  I  went  into  a  mission 
Uie  other  night  in  New  York  and  the  man  that  lead  the  meeting  kept  saying — I 
do  not  know  what  his  name  is,  but  they  call  him  Happy  Tommy — "  Keep  pray- 
ing ;  brethren,  keep  praying ;  brethren,  keep  praying."    I  guess  they  did,  for  the 


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PERSONAL  CHRISTIAN    WORK. 


presence  of  God  was  very  manifestly  present  there  in  the  conversion  of  sinners. 
A  man  was  present  from  Massachusetts  and  he  said,  "  It  is  the  happiest  time  I 
ever  had  in  my  life."  I  saw  him  actually  hug  a  poor  drunken  backslider  who 
was  reclaimed  that  night. 

Let  us  keep  praying.  I  remcmjjer  the  first  Christian  Workers'  Convention. 
I  came  in  a  little  late.  I  did  not  suppose  any  one  knew  me  but  Mr.  Collins.  1  had 
heen  there  about  five  minutes  and  they  read  off  the  nominations,  and  I  was 
nominated  as  Chairman  of  the  Convention.  I  was  surprised,  for  I  certainly  did 
not  deserve  the  name  of  Christian  worker.  I  was  the  pastor  of  a  little  church 
in  Minneapolis.  And,  when  I  lookea  over  that  Convention  I  said  to  myself, 
"  How  can  I  ever  preside  at  such  a  Convention  as  this  .'"  I  went  home  to  my 
room  at  the  hotel  and  1  l.nelt  down  before  Him,  to  whom  I  look  for  help,  and  I 
asked  Him  for  wisdom.  I  asked  Him  to  take  charge  a  the  Convention. 
Everybody  said  that  the  Convention  would  break  up  in  a  row ;  but,  friends,  it  did 
not  break  up  in  a  row.  There  was  the  sweetest  fellowship,  and  there  was  the 
greatest  uplift  1  had  ever  seen  in  my  life  up  to  that  time.  The  whole  secret  of  it 
was  that  not  only  one,  but  many  of  us  went  to  ou.  rooms  and  homes  and  looked 
up  to  God  for  the  blessing  we  expected  to  receive,  and  we  had  it.  Prayer ! 
Prayer!  Just  looking  to  God  in  humble,  expectant  trust  is  the  secret  •  • 
more  than  anything  else.  *  *  When  anything  comes  up  that  is  unpleasant,  let  us 
take  it  to  God  in  prayer  and  say,  "  Fai.her,  you  take  care  of  that,"  and  He  will 
do  it. 

One  thing  more;  let  us  look  to  God  for  power.  1  agree  heartily  with  our 
Brother  'he  pastor  of  this  church,  that  the  Holy  .Spirit  stands  waiting,  wanting  to 
come  into  all  our  hearts,  but  along  with  it  I  put  those  words  of  our  Master,  "  1  f 
ye  then,  being  evil,  know  how  to  give  good  gifis  unto  your  children,  how  much 
more  shall  your  Father  which  is  in  heaven  give  the  Holy  Spirit  to  them  that  ask 
Him,"  and  that  thought  of  the  apostle  James  when  he  says,  "  Ye  have  not,  be- 
cause ye  ask  not."  It  is  true  that  the  Spirit  of  God  is  here.  It  is  true  that  ►'nc 
Spirit  of  God  is  knocking  at  all  our  hearts.  It  is  true  as  Mayor  Howland  said 
that  the  Spirit  of  God  no- .'  dwells  within  us,  since  Christ  is  glorified,  and  it  is 
true,  as  our  Brother  said,  we  have  to  open  the  doors  and  we  have  to  open  the 
windows,  and  the  main  thing  in  opening  the  windows  and  doors  is  to  put  away 
sin  and  be  ready  for  the  Spirit  of  God  to  use  us.  That  is  true.  That  is  God's 
whole  truth  and  that  is  the  reason  why  so  many  of  us  have  not  the  power  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  because  tlic  sin  is  not  put  away  and  we  are  not  willing  that  God 
shall  use  us  in  His  own  way.  When  that  in  done,  just  ask  and  expect  and  He 
comes.     Oh,  He  tomesl—Jiev.  J!.  A.   Torrey  {Chairman),  pages  i8,  19. 


THE  CHURCH   AT  WORK. 

The  whole  church  at  work  means  the  whole  world  soon  saved. 

The  object  of  such  work  is  •'  to  give  the  church  that  unity  of  impression 
through  its  activities  that  already  exist  through  its  faith." 

The  motive  for  such  work  is  human  want.  Thank  Cod  the  Christian 
church  confronts  no  sleek  and  well-filled  universe ;  it  stares  out  into  vacancy. 

1  •»m  sometimes  askfcd,  how  to  get  people  to  do  church  work,  I  reply,  "  Ask 
them.''     Ask  a  definite  thing  of  even  the  average  church  member,  and  it  will  be 


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iion  of  sinners, 
lappiest  time  I 
lackslider  who 

s'  Convention. 
Collins.  I  had 
ins,  and  I  was 
I  certainly  did 
a  little  church 
laid  to  myself. 
It  home  to  my 
for  help,  and  I 
s  Convention, 
.friends,  it  did 
there  was  the 
ole  secret  of  it 
les  and  looked 
it.  Prayer ! 
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if  impression 

the  Christian 
vacancy, 
reply,  "  Ask 
nd  it  will  be 


hard  for  him  to  refuse,  if  in  his  power. 

In  the  last  five  years  I  have  personally  asked  over  two  hundred  persons  to  be 
Christians  without  refusal.  Dozens  of  church  members  in  Winsted  on  request 
have  spoken  to  the  unconverted. — AVt.  H.  N,  Kinney,  page  30,     ^      ,   !    ,.   .  - 


<'         '     :':    .   HAND-PICKING   IN  SOUL  WINNING.  V'    /•      " 

You  all  know  something  about  fruit  in  orchards,  and  you  know  about  the 
different  ways  of  getting  possession  of  the  fruit.  Some  people  are  satisfied, 
especially  very  little  folks,  to  go  under  the  tree  and  pick  up  the  fallen  and  bruised 
fruit  they  may  find  there.  Some  are  very  impatient  and  incline  to  shake  the  fruit 
down  and  so  do  damage  to  it.  Then  there  are  others,  who  carefully  select  what 
they  want  and  see  when  it  is  ripe,  and  they  pick  it  off  carefully  and  put  it  in  a 
proper  vessel,  and  it  comes  to  our  tables  so  beautiful  and  fresh  and  so  bright,  and 
we  have  it  during  the  cold  season  in  the  d.  rs  when  other  fruit  will  not  keep.  If 
you  have  that  thought  in  mind,  you  have  the  line  on  which  I  am  going  to  say  a 
little  to  you  this  afternoon. 

Now  in  just  dealing  with  this,  so  far  as  we  ourselves  personally  have  to  do 
with  the  hand-picking  of  souls,  I  want  to  say,  there  is  always  a  great  deal  of 
haste,  a  great  deal  too  much  haste  in  the  present  day  in  that  work.  We  take 
hold  of  a  soul  we  never  saw  before,  and  we  expect  we  are  going  to  take  that 
soul  and  put  it  into  the  Lord's  basket  by  a  motion  of  the  hand  and  have  it  secure 
there  in  a  moment.  Well,  we  know  the  Lord  can  do  all  that,  and  nobody  is 
better  satisfied  as  to  the  facts  of  instantaneous  conversions  than  I  am.  but  I  have 
come  to  this  conclusion,  that,  before  a  soul  can  be  saved,  it  must  understand 
that  It  needs  to  be  saved.  There  must  have  been  a  conviction  of  sin.  Whether 
understood  or  realized,  there  must  have  been  a  conviction — of  necessity,  a  con- 
viction of  sin,  before  there  could  be  salvation.  Now,  about  the  conviction  of  sini 
You  knov.  he  Spirit  does  that.  The  Spirit's  office  is  to  convince  of  sin.  Some- 
times, I  think  we  expect  to  do  the  Spirit's  work.  We  are  used  by  the  Spirit  of 
God  to  say  His  Word,  but,  semember,  He  is  to  do  the  work.  Where  does  He 
start  from  }  Remember  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  incarnates  Himself  in  every 
believer  to  save  souls.  It  is  not  that  the  believer  saves  souls,  but  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  limits  Himself  to  the  believer  as  an  agency  and  incarnates  Himself  in 
every  believer  for  the  purpose  of  saving  souls.  Now  then,  the  Spirit  of  God 
resident  in  the  believer,  the  Lord  Jesus  in  a  believer,  sends  conviction,  by  means 
of  the  agency  of  the  believer,  to  the  soul — using  the  believer  simply  as  an  agency. 

Before  the  Spirit  can  use  us,  there  has  got  to  be  a  very  earnest,  heart-burn- 
ing desire  for  the  salvation  of  souls.  If  that  is  not  the  case,  you  will  find  you 
have  little  to  do  with  the  saving  of  souls,  becaus"  underneath  must  lie  the  great 
principle,  "  Out  of  the  abundance  of  the  heart,  ihe  mouth  speaketh."  The  mouth 
does  not  speak  right,  unless  you  love  soul?.  Unless  you  beliove  that  unsaved 
souls  are  going  to  eternal  damnation  and  you  love  them  and  believe  that  Jesus 
Christ  came  to  save  them,  you  will  not  have  much  to  do  with  saving  souls ;  you 
don't  get  hear  them  ;  you  don't  touch  them,  You  want  to  know  why  you  have 
not  done  it  ?  It  requires  an  earnest,  intense  faith  and  understanding  of  these 
principles. 

I  haven't  got  much  faith  in  the  mysterious  way  in  which  people  come  up  or 


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grow  up  and  slip  into  Christ  and  am  tell  nothing  aboat  the  process  of  it.  I 
never  saw  much  good  come  out  of  them  They  haven't  got  any  firmness.  It  is 
not  safe  business.  I  won't  deny  it.  1  never  want  to  deny  anytMag  that  has  got 
anything  of  Christ  in  it.  but  I  tell  you  it  is  a  blessed  thing  to  go  through  the 
conviction  of  sin  and  have  sick  nights  for  sin  and  know  you  are  saved  from  your 
sins  by  the  Saviour  who  came  to  do  it  and  have  the  blessed  sense  of  the  living, 
glorious  Saviour  that  forgave  your  sins  and  took  you  up  and  clothed  you  in  the 
white  garments  and  put  His  mark  on  your  forehead  and  gave  you  the  Word  in 
your  hearts  with  the  pardon.  Let  us  understand  in  our  work,  and  let  us  be- 
lieve that  the  Word  of  God  will  carry  conviction,  and  let  us  look  for  it  in  this 
work  of  ours. 

We  have  got  to  realize  that  it  is  God's  work  to  do  the  saving.  If  you  really 
believe,  you  dear  Christian  people  here,  that  you  are  going  out  to  be  used  by  che 
Holy  Ghost  and  that  He  will  say  words  through  you  that  shall  save  a  man  and 
make  him  a  child  of  God  and  give  him  eternal  life,  you  must  get  the  conviction 
in  your  souls  that  you  have  nothing  to  do  with  the  saving  of  souls  except  as  a 
medium.  The  Holy  Ghost  and  the  Lord  Jesus  do  the  saving  from  the  beginning 
to  the  end. 

Let  us  look  at  the  method  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  He  did  a  great  deal 
of  hand-picking.  I  believe  we  have  not  got  a  right  impression  about  His  way 
of  working,  which  was  more  than  most  of  us  think  just  hand-picking  souls,  tak- 
ing one  soul  at  a  time  and  working  at  it.  The  best  sermons  we  have  in  the 
Word  of  God,  and  the  most  practical  in  every  detail,  are  His  sermons  to  one  per- 
son, where  He  absolutely  goes  over  everything  that  needs  to  be  gone  over  to 
save  a  soul.  Take  the  woman  of  Samaria.  The  first  thing  she  began  or  was  a 
theological  discussion.  I  never  saw  a  man  saved  by  getting  into  a  church  or 
theological  discussion.  Just,  when  she  thought  she  had  got  Him,  He  just  acks 
her  a  little  simple  question,  "  Where  is  your  'lUbband  ?  "  And  she  said,  "  I  have 
no  husband."  He  said,  "  Thou  hast  had  five  hosbands,"  etc.  He  convinces 
her  of  sin.  He  sends  the  dart  into  her  heart,  and  all  the  theology  and  all  the  at- 
tempts to  go  into  a  church  talk  goes  out,  and  there  is  a  woman  convinced  of  sin. 
She  brings  up  the  question  as  to  where  they  shall  worship.  Jesus  goes  on  talk- 
ing to  her,  until  she  feels  she  can  neither  worship  nor  pray,  but  she  feels  she 
must  have  something  to  save  her.  and  she  says  "  When  the  Messiah  comes  He 
will  tell  us  all  things."  Then  Christ  reveals  Himself  by  his  word  and  saves 
her  soul.  You  see  what  a  beautiful  piece  of  hand-picking  that  was.  But  there 
has  to  be  the  comnction  of  sin.  They  never  would  have  got  beyond  Jerusalem 
and  Samaria  in  their  talk,  never  in  the  world,  unless  He  had  got  her  convinced 
of  sin.  You  get  a  soul  convinced  of  sin,  and  all  that  goes  down  to  the  ground  ; 
you  have  got  the  heart  stirred,  the  soul  before  God,  and  it  is  another  operation 
ahogether.  \    ■  •• 

Well,  now  you  see  how  conviction  of  sin  comes  before  conversion.  I  remem- 
ber one  case  where  there  was  a  soul  converted  and  a  soul  convicted  of  sin  at  the 
same  time,  though  the  latter  was  not  converted  until  afi^  a  long  interval. 
It  was  a  case  of  work  with  both  hands.  I  went  to  see  a  woman 
in  our  mission  district  with  a  young  lady,  who  took  an  interest  in  cinldren.  The 
young  lady  was  very  careless  and  worldly,  but  she  had  a  liking  for  children. 


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and,  so  she  used  to  come  to  our  mission  sometimes  to  be  kind  to  these 
little  children.  She  happened  to  be  with  mt  this  morning  and  she  went  in  with 
me.  When  I  went  in,  I  saw  the  woman  in  the  house  was  under  conviction  of  sin, 
and  I  just  said  to  myself,  "  Here  is  a  bit  of  hand-picking."  Then  I  began  to  put  it 
to  her  plainly,  and  the  Spirit  strove  with  her,  and  she  fought  like  a  tiger.  When 
the  devil  feels  his  hold  going,  it  is  like  that  poor  lad,  whom,  when  the  Lord  spoke, 
the  devil  tore.  So  it  was  with  her,  when  that  battle  was  going  on,  until  finally  a 
message  of  the  Lord  came,  and  there  was  deliverance  and  peace  in  a  moment. 
This  young  lady  stood  there  and  her  face  got  long  and  sorrowful,  and  when  we 
went  out  I  said,  "  Did  not  you  see  that  blessing  ?  Did  not  you  see  the  shine  come 
into  her  eyes  ?  Didn't  you  hear  the  praise  coming  out  of  her  mouth  }  Don't  you 
understand  what  that  is  ?  "  She  said,  "  I  do  not  want  to  understand  anything 
about  it."  She  kept  coming,  however,  to  the  mission  for  three  years.  She  could 
not  keep  away.  She  was  converted  three  months  ago.  In  the  meantime  every 
word  went  to  her  heart  like  a  knife.  God  had  commenced  His  work  in  her  soul. 
The  natural  self  struggled  and  fought  against  it,  but,  bless  you  !  it  was  God's 
work.  He  had  undertaken  to  do  the  work  in  his  own  time,  and  he  picked  the  soul 
and  gathered  it  when  it  was  ripe. 

Nicodemus !  I  love  to  think  of  the  Lord's  work  with  him.  It  has  given  us 
the  best  sermon  in  the  Bible.  I  wonder  what  we  would  do  if  we  could  not  some- 
times say,  "  God  so  loved  the  world,  that  he  gave  his  only  begotten  Son,  that 
whosoever  believeth  in  him  should  not  perish,  but  have  everlasting  life." 

What  did  the  Lord  do  to  Nicodemus  ?  He  smashed  his  theology  right  up 
the  first  thing  He  did.  There  was  nothing  left  to  it.  He  said,  "  How  can  these 
things  be  ?  "  All  his  goodness,  theology  and  everything— all  gone  to  smash  in 
this  new  truth.  [Laughter.]  "  How  can  a  man  be  bom  again  ?  "  He  storms, 
almost.  The  man  is  utterly  upset,  and,  then,  comes  on  the  great  sermon  that 
runs  from  mystery  to  love  and  from  love  to  judgment  and  from  judgment  to 
glory.  And  Nicodemus  ?  All  we  can  tell  about  him  is  that  we  find  him  going 
out  earnestly  and  faithfully  and  courageously  to  take  care  of  the  Lord's  body,  one 
of  the  two  trusted  men.  I  think  he  got  well  saved,  and,  if  the  Lord  had  not 
smashed  up  his  theology,  he  would  not  have  been  saved.  I  see  this  in  the  work 
of  salvation.  I  see  this  smashing  up  of  theology  right  and  left.  I  see  a  man, 
who  has  been  brought  up  a  strict  Calvinist,  converted  in  a  Methodist  meeting. 
I  see  a  man,  who  is  born  a  Baptist,  being  converted  in  an  Episcopal  meeting. 
What  it  means  is  not  that  one  is  better  than  another,  but  it  means  that,  before 
they  can  be  saved,  their  theology  has  got  to  be  smashed  up.  [Applause.]  I 
believe  in  doctrine,  but  an  unsaved  soul  built  up  and  fenced  in  with  doctrine  is 
nearer  hell  than  the  most  miserable  drunkard.    Doctrine  is  safe  food  for  the  sons 

of  God  only. 

Leading  men  to  the  Saviour  is  always  done  by  His  Word.  It  is  only  /Ae 
Word,  THE  LIVING  WORD  that  saves  souls.  I  am  becoming  more  and  more 
convinced  that  God  uses  only  His  Word.  I  am  always  afraid,  when  I  see  souls 
that  appear  to  be  saved  by  workers  that  nm  about  without  any  Bibles.  Unless 
THE  WORD  is  given  to  the  heart,  I  haven't  got  much  faith  in  the  opoation  being 
complete.  That  soul  is  saved.  What  did  you  give  it  f  What  did  you  give  it  ? 
There  is  just  one  thing  that  saves  the  soul,  and  that  is  the  Word.    1  want  to 


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prove  It,  very  simply,  by  the  fact  that  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  never  converted 
people  by  the  sight  of  His  living  personality.  It  was  always  by  His  Word, 
ALWAYS.  Suppose  you  take  the  two  cases,  I  have  given  you.  Take  the  woman 
of  Samaria  and  you  will  find  that  it  will  prove  this.  The  personal  presence  of 
Jesus  had  no  effect  upon  the  woman  at  all.  It  was  not  till  He  turned  and  gave 
her  His  Word  that  He  was  the  Messiah,  that  she  was  saved. 

Sometimes  it  is  a  recollection,  but  it  is  always  the  Word.  Jesus  Christ  re- 
veals by  His  own  Word  and  in  His  own  way.  I  was  converted  by  a  text  on  the 
Ivall.  It  followed  me,  until  I  found  Christ.  It  is  always  th?  Word,  and  that  is 
the  reason  I  want  to  impress  it  upon  you.  I  remember  a  certain  case,  where 
there  was  just  this  in  answer  to  prayer.  It  was  a  very  respectable  man,  who  had 
been  brought  up  religiously,  but  was  not  converted  till  two  or  three  weeks  before 
his  death,  and  he  was  in  great  distress  about  it.  It  seemed  to  him  his  life  had 
been  wasted  and  there  was  no  good  in  it.  He  was  in  terrible  trouble  over  it.  I 
went  to  see  him  and  was  talking  with  him,  but  he  did  not  seem  to  be  able  to 
comprehend.  Finally,  I  seemed  to  be  led  to  do  this  way.  I  showed  him  the 
truth  in  the  Word.  I  put  the  Bible  on  his  chest,  for  he  was  unable  to  sit  up,  and 
said,  "  I  am  going  to  pray  down  here  beside  you,  and,  when  the  Lord  sends  you 
light  and  as  soon  as  you  feel  it  is  true  and  you  can  believe,  put  your  hand  in  that 
place,  on  this  text  here  in  the  Word,  which  I  have  read  lo  you."  I  prayed,  and 
the  Lord  led  me  to  pray  very  earnestly.  All  at  once  the  hand  went  slap,  and  I 
lost  a  good  Bagster  Bible,  for  he  tore  clear  through  one  of  the  pages,  but 
there  was  a  soul  saved. —  W.  H.  Houiland,  pages  40,  41,  42,  43, 44,  45. 


There  must  be  a  deep  conviction,  and  it  must  be  by  God's  Holy  Spirit  and 
by  God's  Word. 

To  illustrate  this :  on  the  train  coming  down,  there  was  a  reporter,  and  I 
asked  him  about  his  soul.  He  laughed  at  me  and  ridiculed  the  idea.  In  a  case 
like  that,  God  ^as  always  ied  me  to  use  the  sharp  passages  of  the  Word.  On 
such  a  one  as  that  I  use  such  passages  as  Mark  xvi :  16  and  John  iti :  36.  I 
could  see  him  wince,  but  still  he  laughed.  As  I  was  about  to  lum  in  and  go  to 
sleep  he  said,  "  I  would  like  to  talk  to  you,  before  you  go  to  bed.  I  am  afraid 
this  train  will  go  off  the  track."  [Laughter.]  I  went  back  to  the  other  room 
and  found  that  he  was  under  deep  conviction.  He  was  ready  to  believe  and 
come  to  Christ.— Z>.  L.  Davis,  page  45. 


I  would  like  to  say  a  word  with  reference  to  power  being  in  the  Word. 
Some  time  ago  Mr.  Blake  of  Toronto  was  asked  to  address  a  meeting  in  the 
basement  of  one  of  our  Ottawa  churches.  It  was  durin);  rhe  session  of  Parlia- 
ment, and  there  was  a  member,  who  was  known  as  a  skeptic,  .-^t  the  meeting.  At 
the  close  of  the  meeting  he  went  up  to  Mr.  Blake  and  said,  "  That  is  all  very 
well,  but  It  is  a  book  for  old  women.  I  dp  not  believe  one  word  of  it."  Mr.  Bla'te 
said,  "  Perhaps  some  do  not  believe.  '  Shall  their  unbelief  make  the  faith  of 
God  without  effect  ?  God  forbid :  yea,  let  God  be  true,  but  every  man  a  liar.'  " 
The  man  said,  "  Do  you  mean  to  call  me  a  liar  ?  I  tell  you  I  do  not  believe 
your  book,  and  what  is  more,  I  do  not  believe  in  your  God."  Mr.  Blake  replieu, 
"  I  am  not  surpri^d  at  that,  '  The  fool  hath  said  In  his  heart,  there  is  no  God.'  * 


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HAND-PICK!NG    IN   SOUL    WINNING.  I3 

The  man  was  in  quite  a  passion  and  left  the  church,  but  it  seemed  as  if  with 
every  step  came  those  words  which  he  had  heard.  He  went  to  his  hotel,  but 
could  not  rest.  And  that  Word  of  God  proved,  as  the  gentleman  was  told  after- 
wards, to  have  been  to  the  man  the  sword  of  the  Spirit,  in  opening  up  the  abscess 
of  sin,  and  a  soul  was  born  that  night.— .J/m  B.  H.  Wright,  page  46.  .    . 


I  am  sure,  dear  friends,  <hat  we  ought  all  to  remember  what  God's  own 
Word  says,  "  The  Gospel  is  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation."  It  is  the  power 
unto  salvation,  but  it  is  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation,  and,  as  w ;  use  the  Word 
of  God,  we  use  the  lever,  which  He  himself  has  provided  for  the  salvation  of 
souls.  We  cannot  understand  it.  We  think,  perhaps,  a  soul  might  be  saved  in 
an  easier  and  better  way  by  some  other  means,  but  that  is  what  God  has  provid- 
ed, His  own  precious  Word.  The  Gospel  is  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation. 
Nothing  else  has  any  weight.  No  temperance  pledge  or  any  other  thing  is  going 
to  save  a  man  except  the  Gospel. — A.  Sampson,  page  46. 


Is  not  there  a  passage  in  the  Psalms  which  says,  "  I  will  magnify  my  word 
above  all  my  name."  And  does  not  the  Saviour  say,  "  The  words  that  I  speak 
unto  you,  they  are  spirit,  and  they  are  life  ?  "  And  does  not  the  apostle 
Peter  say,  "  Having  been  begotten  again,  not  of  corruptible  seed,  but  of  incor- 
ruptible, through  the  Word  of  God,  which  liveth  and  abideth  ?  "  And  isn't  that 
really  the  new  birth  when  the  seed,  which  is  the  Word,  is  carried  into  the 
heart,  and  Christ  is  formed  within  .> — A  Delegate,  page  ^6. 


There  is  on  every  tree  fruit,  ripe  fruit  and  fruit  just  getting  ripe  and  some 
that  is  green.  You  better  not  waste  much  of  your  time  on  the  green  until  you 
get  the  ripe  off  or  the  ripe  may  stay  too  long  and  get  injured  by  falling.  You 
should  not  be  in  despair,  if  you  find  one  that  looks  ripe  and  hangs  to  the  limb. 
Give  it  a  little  harder  twist  and  it  will  come  off.  If  it  seems  a  little  green,  lay  it 
in  the  sunshine  of  God's  love  a  few  moments  and  it  will  turn  ripe,  but  don't 
waste  your  energy  too  much  on  green  fruit.  There  are  some  people  that  want 
the  Gospel  pounded  into  them.  You  have  to  preach  and  testify  and  read  God's 
Word,  and  then  it  seems  to  be  like  water  running  off  a  duck's  back  and  does  not 
have  any  effect  at  all.  You  had  better  let  these  men  alone  awhile.  They  are 
like  the  swine  before  whom  you  must  not  cast  pearls.  Such  are  those  who  know 
more  than  is  written  in  God's  Word. 

Don't  waste  too  much  time  on  them  at  first.  When  they  get  ripe,  you  can 
go  and  pick  them.  We  have  had  real  good  men  and  women  come  to  the  mission 
from  the  churches.  There  are,  perhaps,  two  hundred  and  fifty  who  remain  to 
the  after-meeting,  and  out  of  that  number  the  e  are,  perhaps,  thirty  or  fortv  ripe 
ones  and  a  good  many  green  ones.  These  gnd  people  would  go  after  the  green 
ones.  I  remenrtber  one  dear  man  who  came  rushing  to  me  one  night  and  said, 
"  I  have  got  a  soul."  I  looked  at  him  and  saw  that  he  had  a  man  who  had  been 
up  at  least  three  hundred  nights  in  a  year.  That  man  had  spenfconsiderable 
time  in  getting  him  up  there  to  the  altar,  and  thought  he  had  achieved  a  big 
thing,  but  he  did  not  know  enough  about  that  fruit.  Another  time  I  found  him 
working  With  a  hardened  sinner,  who  came  in  looking  for  a  night's  lodging.   And 


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before  that  swine.    He  has  had  pearls  cast  before  hi,  feet  for  t.vo  or  th^  ^^^ 
He  alwayMramps  them  under  his  feet.    Let  him  alone  a  little  whik"    I  S 
the  best  thmg  is  to  get  down  before  God  and  ask  H^im  aslc  the  Hnf.  rilv. 
fin  yo"  and  enlighten  you  and  give  you  wi«lom  "  "haf  y^i' "   L^^^^^^^ 
speak  to  a  man  and  hear  him  say  a  woixi.  whether  he  is  one  that  the  Ho7y  Gh^t 

iTnd  tC  1 ""'  ??  "i'^  "  "°^'  ^''  ''""  ^  '^-'^  *-d  -d  pass  ontanoi" 
I  find  that  to  work  the  best  in  our  mission  work,  and  we  los^  less  la' ur  ?nTh!^' 
than  any  other  way.-G,/.  G^.  R.  Clarke,  fages  46.  47.  ^^'^ 

With  reference  to  this  matter  of  conviction  of  sin      i*   ;«  =.  ^^.  • 

kept  for  SIX  months  away  from  Christ  on  the  ground  that  IhaH  n«  ^Z 
enough,  and  I  might  have  been  kept  away  untifZ  time   f  sJme  Chir'n"; 
not  had  intelligence  enough  to  say.^.CoL  to  the  LrjesuTchrist  S  He 
w.Ilg,veyou  conv>ct.on."     I   worked  and  toiled  and  priyed  and  wept  and  J 

deZSfldT  '  ■■"'  ""t  '  "^^^  '"  ■'°^"  «""y^" '"  -hich  he  She  w  j 
determmed  to  persevere  m  the  race  till  the  moss  grew  over  his  eyebrows  I  s^^^ 
M  wni  pray  and  plead  and  pray  and  plead  so  that  I  can  be  saved '•  W^S' 
somebody  had  enough  of  the  Gospel  in  their  hearts  to  say.  "cletoS 
Chnst  and  let  H.m  g.vc  you  conviction."  When  I  was  all  wLed  Z  1  came 
I  thmk  many  persons  are  in  exactly  that  position 

I  never  shall  forget  a  young  man.  who.  when  we  asked  him  abcut  his  person- 
P^T^'  ^'^ ''"'  ''°^-    "  ^  *^  '°r  *«=ks  trying  to  get  convXr  I 
was  so  bothered  about  it  I  could  not  sleep  nights.    I  wfnt  to^^  funeral  and  I 
heard  them  s.ng  a  hymn.  '  Asleep  in  Jesus.'    It  was  the  first  time  Had  "te 

on?'  TT  H  tV  k'^"""  '°  ""^  '^"^'^  ""'^  «°  '°  ^'"^P  -  i^^-  I  wi  d«d 
Ta^  y"doubtedly  he  mterpreted  the  hymn  a  little  different  from  what  is  n 

tw'lt  "  '''  "«»>' thing-just  to  lie  down  and  go  to  sleepTnT^us     "' 

Uke  Him  Lw  •     I  '"f,'  "°^-    ''°"  ""^  "°'  *^*  ^°'  'he  morrow.  Just 

WH  T"  .  "^^"^ '°  '""  y°"  "'^^  'h*=  ™°«'  remarkable  experience  I  ever 
heard  was  that  of  a  m.ssionary  (I  wish  you  could  all  have  heard  Tt)onThe 
Congo,  who  had  labored  seven  year,  in  the  midst  of  those  AW  anf  Jthout 
a  «'ngle  convert.    His  story  is  most  instructive.    I  heard  it  last  week  HeS 

L  SiTh"  T':;"^  '''"  ^°  '"^'^  '"^  ^°^P^'-    "^  -"t  home  o  England 
and  told  them  h.s  discouragement  and  asked.  <■  What  shall  I  do  ?  "    They  Sd 
Go  back  and  give  them  the  law."    He  said.  "  I  went  back  armed  with  the  Ten 

t?«r'",  r"''-    ',^°"'''  ''''"'  ^""  "P  ^"^  ^y-  '  Haven't  you  broCthatInd 
hat    and  they  cared  no  mor*  about  it  than  as  though  they  had  nevlr  hirdk 

Gospel  and  called  on  them  to  help  me  translate  it.  I  read  the  sto^r  of  Jesus  Oirfat 

I  told  that  stonr  over  and  over  again,  they  began  to  melt  and,  within  a  monST 


the  inquiry 
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COMMUNION  WITH  CHRIST.  S$ 

I  had  the  names  of  one  thousand  and  three,  whom  I  believe  were  fully  con- 
verted." That  is  the  story.  How  simple  it  is.  "  The  Son  of  man  is  come  to 
seek  anc!  to  save  that  which  was  lost."  If  you  search  the  Scriptures,  it  is  all 
summed  up  in  this,  Jesus  Christ  ^/V<r,r  )}cv:gift  ot  salvation.  Salvation  is  simply 
acceptance  of  God's  gift.  I  never  tell  a  soul  to  give  himself  to  Jesus  Christ.  I 
never  tell  them  to  give  their  hearts  to  God,  because  the  Scripture  never  says  that, 
but  I  tell  them  to  take  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ.  I  believe  in  conviction  just  as 
strongly  as  my  Brother  believes  in  it.  But  my  experience  is  that  after  having 
tried  for  six  months  to  get  convicted  and  could  not,  I  received  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ.  Then  I  began  to  be  seriously  convicted.  There  is  nothing  that  shows 
black  to  be  black  like  white.  There  is  nothing  that  reveals  the  darkness  like  the 
light.  There  are  men  in  Central  Africa  that  never  knew  they  were  black,  until 
they  saw  the  face  of  a  white  man.  There  are  sinners  that  never  will  see  that 
they  are  sinners,  until  they  see  the  face  of  Jesus  Christ.  I  would  bring  them  face 
to  face  with  the  Lord.  Now  where  is  conviction  ?  Here  it  is.  I  want  to  con- 
fess most  solemnly  that  from  the  time  I  was  converted  to  this  present  day  con- 
viction has  been  deepening  and  deepening.  The  more  I  see  the  holiness  of  God 
in  the  face  of  Jesus  Christ,  the  more  do  I  abhor  myself.  So  I  would  bring  souls 
face  to  face  with  Jesus  Christ.     [Applause.] 

A  man  on  the  battlefield  once  said,  "  I  was  firing  all  day  at  the  enemy  and 
I  thought  no  more  about  It  than  I  would  about  shooting  birds,  but,  in  the  course 
of  the  battle,  we  swept  over  the  field  where  the  enemy  had  stood,  and  I  remem- 
bered shooting  a  man  that  stood  under  a  tree.  J  saw  the  man.  I  took  deliber- 
ate aim  and  killed  him,  and  I  cared  no  more  about  it  in  "battle  than  if  I  had  been 
shooting  game.  When  the  battle  swept  by,  I  saw  the  man  I  had  killed  and  saw 
the  blood  oczing  out  of  his  side.  There  were  some  papers  dropping  out  of  his 
pocket.  I  looked  at  them,  saw  a  letter  from  home  and  a  photograph  of  his 
children,  and  I  was  so  overcome  I  knelt  down  over  that  man  and  poured 
out  my  tears  of  repentance  and  begged  that  he  would  forgive  me  that  I  had 
killed  him." 

When  you  see  the  wounds  of  Jesus  Christ,  you  see  what  your  sin  has  done. 
"  Look  to  the  wounds  of  Jesus  Christ !  Look  to  the  wounds  of  Jesus  Christ  I " 
said  the  monk  that  came  out  a  little  before  Luther.  Look  to  the  wounds  of 
Jesus  Christ !  I  believe  there  is  conviction.  Just  as  this  man  in  battle  did  not 
feel,  till  he  saw  what  he  had  done,  I  think  you  cannot  make  men  feel  their  sin  till 
they  see  the  wounds  of  Jesus  Christ. — Jtev.  A,  J.  Gordon,  D,  D„  pages  47,  48. 


COMMUNION  WITH  CHRIST. 
There  is  the  greatest  danger  in  the  work  and  whirl  of  our  busy  lives  of 
becoming  so  absorbed  in  work  as  not  to  hear  the  still  small  voice  of  the  Beloved 
calling  us  to  commune  with  Himself.  Sometimes  even  soul-saving  work  draws 
our  attention  away,  and  we  become  so  -absorbed  in  thoughts  of  the  work  that  we 
fail  to  hear  His  voice,  but  how  He  loves  o  have  us  just  sit  at  His  feet  as  Mary 
did.  How  He  longs  for  the  blessed  interciange  of  thought  and  love  and  affection 
between  our  souls  and  Him.  We  get  time  to  engage  in  praver,  but  how  very 
few  of  us  have  real,  true,  deep  communion  With  the  Beloved !  There  is  a  wonder- 
ful difference,  dear  friends.    We  sometimes  get  so  full  of  self  that  it  is  sielf  al'  '■'.'■. 


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I'KRSONAI,   (.HKIS'nA>    WORK- 


way  through.  Communion,  as  I  under.stand  it,  is  delighting  in  what  God  de- 
lights in.  Let  us  linger  more  at  His  blessed  feet.  Let  us  be  silent  before  Him 
and  see  what  word  the  Lord  will  speak.— .>//'«  //.  H,  Wright,  page  64. 


THE  MODEL  WORKER. 

How  plainly  He  stated  the  fact  of  His  mission  !  And  He  could  put  so 
much  in  a  few  words,  while  you  and  I  take  a  great  many  when  we  have  some- 
thing to  tell.  He  gathered  up  the  story,  put  it  into  a  single  sentence  and  threw 
it,  as  it  were,  across  the  world's  darkness  and  need,  when  He  said,  "  For  the  Son 
of  man  is  come  to  seek  and  to  save  that  which  was  lost."  I  do  not  suppose  there 
is  a  person  here  who  does  not  believe  that,  but  I  would  like  to  speak  to  the  heart 
of  each  man  and  woman  who  bears  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jesus  and  couple  for- 
ever in  your  hearts  another  verse.  The  dear  Master,  looking  into  the  face  of  the 
Father,  said,  '  As  thou  hast  sent  me  into  the  world,  even  so  have  I  also  sent 
them  into  the  world,"  and  then  looking  into  the  faces  of  His  disciples  He  said. 
•'  As.  my  Father  hath  sent  me,  even  so  send  I  you."  j 

Suppose  .some  of  you  had  just  returned  from  a  trip  across  the  water,  and  you 
were  d<;scribing  to  a  friend  a  perilous  trip  and  you  said,  "  As  we  sailed  across 
the  waters  we  saw  dismantled  ships.  We  saw  many  a  wreck.  We  saw  men 
and  women  floating  upon  spars  and  drifting  hopelessly."  Suppose  that  friend 
inquired,  "  What  did  you  do  about  it  ?  "  and  you  said,  "  I  just  kept  myself  from 
falling  overboard."  What  would  such  a  friend  think  of  you  .'  You  would  be 
ashamed  to  tell  it  to  any  one,  that  you  did  not  put  forth  any  effort  to  save. 

No  one  will  ever  reach  the  highest  in  their  mission,  unless  their  aim  is  the 
highest.  The  dear  Lord  Jesus  said,  "  I  have  glorified  thee  on  the  earth  :  I  have 
finished  the  work  which  thou  gavest  me  to  dc  "  Here  He  announces  the  highest 
aim,  "  I  have  glorified  thee  on  the  earth :  I  have  finished  the  work  which  thou 
gavest  me  to  do."  Again  He  says,  "  I  have  given  unto  them  the  words  which 
thou  gavest  me,"  and  so  great  was  His  desire  to  carry  out  the  commission  that 
His  Father  had  given  Him  that  He  said,  "  My  meat  is  to  do  the  will  of  him 
that  sent  me." 

Then  there  is  another  thing,  which  the  model  worker  must  have.  He  must 
have  not  only  a  mission  and  an  aim,  but  he  must  be  anointed  for  the  work. 
"  The  spirit  of  the  Lord  is  upon  me,  because  he  hath  anointed  me  to  preach  the 
(lospel  to  the  poor  ;  He  hath  sent  me  to  heal  the  broken-hearted,  to  preach  de- 
liverance to  the  captives,  and  recovering  of  sight  to  the  blind,  to  set  at  liberty 
them  that  are  bruised."  Dear  friends,  you  get  here  your  programme  for  the 
work  you  are  to  do.  He  has  never  changed  it.  When  He  sent  back  word  to 
John,  who  had  sent  to  know  if  He  were  the  one  who  should  come  or  if  they 
should  look  for  another.  He  said,  "  Go  your  way,  and  tell  John  what  things  ye 
have  seen  and  heard  ;  how  that  the  blind  see,  the  lame  walk,  the  lepers  are 
cleansed,  the  deaf  hear,  the  dead  are  raised,  to  the  poor  the  gospel  is  preached." 
Sometimes  it  seems,  friends,  that  we  of  the  church  have  drifted  away  from 
Christianity's  original  programme.  Oh,  may  we  not  have  to  wait  to  drift  back  to 
it,  but  let  us  GO  back  to  it. 

"  Ye  shall  receive  power  after  that  the  Holy  Ghost  is  come  upon  you." 
We  need  the  anointing.  Christian  workers,  for  the  work.    God  pitj-  anybody,  "> 


ijitMiowniiiirtiiiMiifMiMiiiiirw.    iMnt  Mini— I  , 


THE   MODKl.    WOKKEK. 


If 


1  what  God  de- 
em before  Him 
rtiV  64. 


could  put  so 
we  have  some- 
!nce  and  threw 

"  For  the  Son 
'■  suppose  there 
Jk  to  the  heart 
nd  couple  for- 
the  face  of  the 
>ve  I  also  sent 
iples  He  said. 

'ater,  atid  you 
sailed  across 
We  saw  men 
se  that  friend 
t  myself  from 
^ou  would  be 
3  save. 

eir  aim  is  the 
arth :  I  have 
•s  the  highest 
c  which  thou 
vords  which 
mission  that 
:  will  of  him 

■•  He  must 
r  the  work. 
J  preach  the 
)  preach  de- 
H  at  liberty 
ime  for  the 
•k  word  to 

or  if  they 
;  things  ye 

lepers  are 
preached." 
away  from 
{/■/back  to 

ipon  you." 
anybody,  1 


who  gets  in  a  hurry  to  go  to  work,  and  goes  out  without  the  anointing  and 
works  and  hurries  and  is  just  building  up  with  wood,  hay  and  stubble,  which 
will  be  burned  up  when  the  world  is  over  !  It  seems  pitiful  that  anybody  should 
build  up  work,  even  Christian  work,  and  yet  suffer  the  loss  and  have  it  all 
burned  up,  because  they  did  not  build  with  Christ. 

^■ou  remember  about  I'eter,  after  the  gift  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  how  men 
were  pricked  m  their  hearts  as  they  heard  him.  You  remember  about  liarnabas. 
He  was  full  of  the  Holy  Spirit  and  people  came,  and  many  people  believed 
in  the  Lord.  It  does  not  say  that  he  was  a  great  man.  It  does  not  say  that  he 
was  an  eloquent  speaker  or  told  the  story  in  a  wonderful  way,  but  many  people 
were  added  unto  the  Lord. 

"  Hk  saw  the  people  and  had  compassion  on  them."  He  was  responsive  to 
every  one  who  needed  Him,  neve  spelling  any— not  even  condemning  the  sinful 
woman,  who  was  brought  to  Him,  and,  when  the  leper  came,  "  He  reached  out 
his  hand  and  touched  him,"  and  the  woman,  who  touched  the  hem  of  His  gar- 
ment, received  instant  cure.  I  think  that  we,  as  Christian  workers,  have  to  learn 
this  bles.sed  lesson.  We  are  called  to  be  responsive  to  the  world's  great  need. 
It  is  all  around  us,  hearts  that  are  aching,  people  that  are  oppressed,  captives  that 
are  bound,  and  you  and  ?  want  to  keep  our  spirit  ears  open  not  only  toward 
God  but  toward  man  that  we  may  hear  this  call  and  be  responsive  to  it.  Said  a 
Christian  worker  to  me,  "  It  seems  to  me  we  have  got  to  learn  to  love  the  un- 
lovely." You  and  I  cannot  do  it  of  ourselves.  I  give  you  one  word  which 
explains  how  we  are  to  get  that  love,  "  I  have  declared  unto  them  thy  name,  and 
will  declare  it :  that  the  love  wherewith  thou  hast  loved  me  may  be  in  them,  and 
1  in  them."  Dear  friends,  it  is  not  our  love  that  is  going  to  reach  out  but  Christ 
in  us.  Does  somebody  say,  "  I  would  like  to  follow  such  a  model  as  that."  I 
am  not  asking  you  to  do  that.  I  want  you  to  look  at  Him  and  be  sure  that  if 
you  are  going  to  use  this  life  for  the  Lord  Jesus  CJhrist,  He  must  live  in  you.  It 
is  Christ  that  is  going  to  speak  out  through  your  voice  and  in  the  grasp  of  your 
hand  and  in  the  touch  that  you  give.  I  remember  a  little  lesson,  which  came  to 
me.  I  stood  in  the  old  cathedral  in  Antwerp  and,  as  I  watched  the  artists  as  they 
came  in  and  looked  at  Reuben's  matchless  picture,  I  noticed  how  they  sat  down 
and  became  quiet  before  it  and  how  they  folded  up  their  arms  and  did  not  begin 
to  paint  right  away  but  studied  the  picture.  Then,  I  noted  more  than  one  man 
as  he  took  his  brush  did  not  look  at  his  hand,  but  kept  his  eyes  on  the  picture  and 
the  hand  began  to  move  as  he  looked  upon  the  face  of  Christ.  Friends,  we 
want  to  get  such  a  look  into  the  face  of  Christ.— J/rf. /.  K.  Barney,  pages  67, 
68,  69,  70. 


EVERY  CHRISTIAN  AT  WORK. 
You  want  to  know  the  secret  of  success  ?  It  is  all  in  your  being  like  Jesuis 
Christ,  in  this  single  respect — "  The  Son  of  man  came  not  to  be  ministered 
unto,  but  to  minister,  and  to  give  his  life  a  ransom  for  many."  How  com- 
pletely we  have  turned  that  about  in  these  days  !  I  think  I  do  not  exaggerate, 
when  I  say  that  the  chief  end  of  the  Nineteenth  Century  Christian  is  to  get  the 
best  pew  in  the  church,  hear  the  best  preacher  that  money  can  procure,  listen  to 

the  f  nest  music  that  can  be  had,  and  so  be  ministered  unto  and  comforted  and 
made  happy. 


^•SSEJ" 


"■  "'"^^■'' '  ''•"«*<&'•' 


fl 


IS 


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l8 


I'KRSONAI.   LHRISTIAN    WORK. 


How  much  of  latter-day  8elfiHhnc!i!«  has  been  crystalized  iit  one  of  our  prov- 
erbs, "  lAwk  out  for  numbtr  one."  Oh,  how  often  it  is  repeated  !  Is  not  the 
ver)'  pith  and  marrow  and  foundation  of  the  (iospcl  in  thi.s  rather,  "  Look  out  for 
number  two  ?  "  The  law  said,  "  Thou  shait  love  thy  neighbor  as  thyself."  But 
the  (lospel  goes  deeper  than  that,  "Thou  shall  love  thy  neighbor  better  than 
thyself."  I.(Kik  out  for  number  two,  and  let  number  one  take  care  of  himself. 
One  of  the  greatest  philanthropists  who  ever  lived,  when  asked  by  a  serious 
minded  brother,  "  How  about  your  soul  }  "  .said,  "  I  have  lieen  so  absorbed  hi 
the  cause  of  these  ptx»r  slaves  that  1  have  not  tiiought  of  my  own  soul."  Yet. 
how  his  soul  flourished,  when  he  forgot  number  one  and  looked  out  for  numt)er 
two ! 

Take  this  again :  "  /'a  iiol  hornm'  trouhli."  O  Christian  friends,  if  there 
is  one  thing  you  ought  to  do  from  January  to  December,  it  is-  to  borrow  trouble. 
Horrow  all  you  can  get ;  borrow  your  neighbor's  poverty  ;  borrow  your  neigh- 
bor's tears  ;  borrow  your  neighbor's  sin  ;  borrow  your  neighbor's  shame — all  you 
can  get.  Alas  for  the  Christian,  who  never  lends  or  borrows  in  this  worKI's 
market  of  misery  !     I  pity  him. 

These  are  just  illustrations  of  how  we  have  turned  things  about.  Now  si;;>- 
pose  we  just  reverse  all  this,  and  every  one  of  us  make  it  read,  "  Not  to  be  minis- 
tered unto,  but  to  minister,"  and  give  ourselves  a  ransom  for  many,  pouring  out 
our  treasure,  pouring  out  our  lives  and  giving  ourselves  from  morning  to  night 
to  lift  up  sorrowing  and  perishing  and  dying  humanity  ;  and  1  assure  you  our 
churches  will  be  full  for  the  simple  reason  that  Jesus  Christ  and  Him  crucified 
has  got  inside  of  Christian  men,   where  the   first  person  singular  has  no  long 

been  ruling. 

The  question  for  you,  Christian,  is  this,  "  What   think  ye  of  man  ?  "     It  is 

written,  that  a  man  shall  be  more  precious  than  fine  gold,  than  the  golden  wedge 

of  Ophir.     How  precious  ?     Precious  as  gold  to  be  put  in  thy  coffers .'     Is  that 

what  you  want  him  for  ?    Or  is  it  this  way,   that  man   is  more  precious  than 

gold,  hccaase  you  believe  that  you  can  bring  him  into  the  mint  of  regeneration 

and  !iave him  stamped  and  put    into  circulation?    That  is  what  we  want,  and 

that  IS  why  men  should  be  more  precious  than  gold. 

Did  you  not  ever  think  at  this  point  of  the  contrast  between  Satan  and  Jesus 
Christ.  When  Satan  met  Jesus  Christ  in  that  temptation  which  was  typical,  that 
temptation  which  foreshadowed  the  age-long  temptation  of  the  church,  he  said, 
"  Command  that  these  stones  be  made  bread  " — material  things  turned  into 
means  of  gratifying  our  senses,  the  lust  of  the  eyes,  the  lujt  of  the  flesh,  the 
pride  of  life.  Look  upon  men  as  so  many  stones  that  you  may  turn  to  gold  and 
put  into  your  cofTers  ;  look  upon  men  as  grain  that  may  be  ground  up  and  turned 
into  food  for  you  to  feed  yourselves  upon. 

Jesus  Christ  on  the  contrary  sa>s.  "  God  is  able  of  these  stones  to  raise  up 
children  unto  Abraham  ;  "  Yes,  they  are  stones,  but  bring  them  to  me,  and  they 
shall  be  fashioned  into  comer-stones  polished  after  the  similitude  of  a  palace. 
Yes,  they  are  stones,  but  bring  them  to  me,  and,  in  the  hands  of  the  divine  lapi- 
dary, they  shall  be  made  fit  to  be  worn  in  the  breastplate  of  the  great  High-priest. 
Stones  there  are  in  the  quarrv' ;  they  are  dark  and  uncouth  and  shapeless.  Yes, 
but  bring  them  to  me  and  they  shall  be  living  stones,  "  builded  together  for  a 
habitation  of  God  through  the  Spirit." 


!' 


KVEKV   LHKISTiAN    AT   WORK. 


of  our  prov- 
h  not  the 
Look  out  for 
>'self."  Hut 
bctttr  than 
:  of  himself, 
y  a  serious 
absorbed  in 
loul."  Yet. 
for  number 

ids,  if  there 
ow  trouble, 
•our  neijfh- 
iie— all  you 
his  world's 

Now  si;;)- 
o  be  minis- 
louring  out 
ig  to  nijfht 
re  you  our 
11  crucified 
as  no  lonjf 

1?"  It  is 
len  wedge 
?  Is  that 
ious  than 
feneration 
ivant,  and 

and  Jesus 
oical,  that 
he  said, 
ned  into 
flesh,  the 
gold  and 
id  turned 

raise  up 
md  they 
a  palace, 
ine  lapi- 
h-priest. 
5.  Yes, 
ler  for  a 


»» 


\ 


"  And  when  they  had  found  him,  they  said  unto  him.  All  men  seek  for 
thee.  And  he  said  unto  them,  Let  us  go  into  the  next  towns  that  I  may 
preach  there  also,  for  therefore  came  I  forth."  Now,  my  brethren,  I  have  to  say 
that  I  do  not  know  a  passage  in  all  Scripture  in  which  the  utter  indifference  of 
Jesus  Christ  to  popularity  is  more  distinctly  brought  out  than  in  this.  When 
they  said.  "  All  men  seek  for  thee,"  why  did  not  He  answer,  "  Let  them  come. 
Uuild  me  a  tabernacle,  which  shall  !le<tt  five  thousand  people,  and  I  will  crowd 
it  from  the  pulpit  to  the  door,  until  the  people  are  compelled  to  stand  on  the 
sidewalk,  and  these  proud  scoffing  High-priests  and  Pharisees  shall  find  out 
whether  I  am  the  imposter  they  declare  I  am."  But  instead  of  that,  when  they 
said,  "  All  men  seek  for  thee,"  He  said,  "  Let  us  go  into  the  next  villages  and 
preach  the  Gospel  there."  Here  is  a  difference  between  sensationalism  and 
evangelism.  Sensationalism  says,  "  Let  all  men  come  to  me."  Evangelism 
says,  "  Let  me  go  to  all  men."  Sensationalism  seeks  the  praise  of  men.  Evange- 
lism gladly  departs  into  destitute  places  to  endure  hardness  in  order  to  preach 
the  (lospel  to  those  who  haven't  heard  it.  The  one  is  egotism,  which  makes  self 
the  centre  :  the  other  is  altruism  which  finds  its  blessing  in  saving  and  helping 
another.  See  how  Jesus  Christ  took  the  latter  side,  and,  when  all  men  v/ere 
pressing  to  hear  Him,  He  would  go  into  the  next  villages.  He  only  proved  that 
His  Gospel  was  centrifugal  and  not  centripetal,  that  it  went  out  to  men  and  did 
not  seek  itself.  Here  is  the  practical  lesson  for  us.  Let  us  go  into  the  next 
villages  and  towns  and  preach  the  Gospel.  That  is  what  He  said  in  effect  and  wh^t 
we  may  say,  for  I  remind  you  that  our  Gospel  is  to  be  heralded  and  not  hoarded. 
I  care  not  how  rich  your  experience  is,  keep  your  religion  to  yourself  and  it  will 
spoil  on  your  hands. 

We  have  a  tree  of  life  which  bears  twelve  manner  of  fruits.  What  is  the 
use  of  trying  to  can  our  religion  up  lu  creeds  and  confessions  ?  This  is  the 
troublo  /iith  our  faith,  too  much  of  it  has  been  packed  away  in  dogmas.  Send  it 
out,  if  you  would  preserve  it.  Give  it  away,  if  you  would  keep  it.  But  let  me 
warn  all  you  Christians  to-night  against  the  danger  of  considering  your  religio.i 
as  a  life-preserver  instead  of  a  life-boat,  that  you  shall  not  make  it  your  main 
business  to  save  your  own  soul  instead  of  making  it  your  business  to  go  forth 
to  rescue  the  perishing.  Is  not  that  what  we  have  been  doing,  alas  too  often ! 
"  All  men  seek  for  Thee."  Yes,  but  let  us  go  into  the  next  villages.  There  are 
people,  who  need  us  in  the  next  villages.  Mark  you  !  "  The  next  villages." 
The  same  plan  that  was  given  in  the  beginning,  Jerusalem,  then  the  surrounding 
country,  and,  then  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth — beginni.ig  av;  the  center  and 
touching  all  that  lies  between  the  centre,  and,  so  reaching  the  circumference. 
How  many  there  are  who  want  to  reach  the  circumference  without  touching  the 
intermediate  ground.  But  you  cannot  do  it.  I  warn  you  again  against  making 
your  religion  a  life-bomb.  You  know  how  it  is,  v^en  a  bomb  is  shot  out  to  a 
wreck.  The  Gospel  is  a  life-saviog  apparatus,  and  there  are  many  people  inter- 
ested in  foreign  missions,  who  would  like  to  shoot  a  missionary  right  out  into 
India  or  Africa  without  touching  the  intermediate  territory.  Jesus  said,  go  into 
the  next  villages  and  keep  going,  until  you  reach  the  uttermost  parts  of  the  earth, 
and  not  leave  the  intermediate  points.  Here  is  a  lesson  for  us.  I  bring  it  home 
to  you.    What  is  the  next  village  to  you,  O  Christian  woman  ?    I  will  tell  you 


I 


m 


tsw^iSKfS^'^-^- 


mmm^!^!M^Mmm.:. 


»rT^^wmi»jM>M*jM^ 


20 


FKKtiONAI.    CHKIHTIAN    WDKK. 


1;  . 


"If 


i  i!' 


t  r 


;;!.  I 


what  the  next  villaRC  is  (or  you.  It  is  your  kitchen,  ( Applause.  |  You  will 
start  on  your  missionary  tour,  I  trust,  to-morrow,  dctrrminecl  to  olwy  the  great 
command  to  preach  the  ("lospel  to  the  ends  of  the  earth,  and  tlic  lirst  station  you 
will  come  to  is  your  kitchen.  Have  you  prayed  for  your  ccKik  and  tried  to  bring 
her  to  Jesus  Christ  ?  I  tell  you  if  everybody  in  New  Kngiand  had  l)een  doing  it, 
the  foundations  of  superstition  would  have  been  undermined.  (Ih,  have  you  gone 
there  ,'  That  is  the  next  village  to  you.  Have  you  prayed  ?  Have  you  carried 
the  Hible  ?  Have  you  been  anxious  and  earnest  to  bring  that  soul  to  Christ  ?  If 
you  have.  Gwl  will  have  blessed  you.  If  you  have,  you  will  not  simply  have 
won  a  soul,  but  perhaps  have  found  an  evangelist,  who  will  take  up  the  (lospel 
and  preach  the  Oospel  to  the  neighbors.  I  wish  I  had  time  to  tell  you  about 
one.  Christian  Eddy.  She  was  a  cook,  but  she  did  not  seek  to  get  out  of  her 
position,  when  she  found  Christ,  Let  us  learr  from  her  to  be  humble.  She  just 
staid  in  her  kitchen  and  became  an  evangelist  to  the  whole  community  where  she 
lived.     That  is  why  in  a  changed  heart 

"  A  servant  with  this  clause 

Makes  drudgery  divine  ;       ' 
Who  sweeps  a  room  as  by  thy  laws 
Makes  that  and  th'  action  fine." 

What  is  your  next  door  neighbor,  O  Christian  merchant .'  What  is  the 
next  village  for  you  ?  I  am  perfectly  clear  what  it  is.  It  is  your  salesroom 
where  your  clerks,  are,  the  attics  and  cellars  where  your  porters  are.  Have  you 
been  there  with  the  Gospel  ?  I  lay  that  on  your  heart.  I  have  had  many  a 
man  come  to  m^and  say,  "  Well,  if  there  is  anything  in  it,  I  think  my  employer, 
who  is  a  deacon  in  the  church,  would  not  have  lived  all  these  years  and  never 
once  hat^e  urged  me  to  become  a  Christian."  In  a  store  I  have  had  that  said  to 
me  many  a  time.  Do  you  say  that  would  be  a  very  unusual  thing  for  a  busi- 
ness man  to  do  ?  Did  you  ever  hear  of  Samuel  Budgett,  an  unusual  merchant, 
who  did  a  very  unusual  thing  ?  When  he  began  it,  they  said  he  was  the  most 
eccentric  man  in  all  the  country.  Eccentric  means  out  of  centre.  Now  if  you 
make  self  the  centre,  they  wont  regard  you  as  eccentric,  but,  if  you  make  God 
the  centre  you  will  be  eccentric,  because  you  are  out  of  centre  with  the  world 
and  in  centre  with  God.  That  was  the  way  with  Samuel  Budgett.  They  said 
he  was  eccentric.  What  did  he  do .'  At  twelve  o'clock  business  stopped.  All 
the  clerks  and  employees  poured  into  a  room  which  he  had  fitted  uo  for  this  pur- 
pose. He  read  a  passage  of  Scripture  and  prayed  for  his  workmen.  That  is 
the  singular  thing  he  did.  What  was  the  result  ?  The  result  was  that  one  after 
another  was  brought  into  such  relation  to  that  man  that  they  were  no  longer 
workmen,  and  he  could  say,  "  Henceforth  I  call  you  not  servants  ;  «  *  but  I  have 
called  you  friends."  They  bec?me  his  friends  in  the  Lord,  and  that  whole  estab- 
lishment became  so  compact  in  the  fellowship  of  the  Gospel  as  to  move  as  one 
man  in  the  interest  of  their  employer.  Samuel  Budgett,  because  he  was  not 
ashamed  to  own  Jesus  Christ,  became  not  only  an  eminent  Christian  but  a  most 
successful  merchant.  Go  into  the  next  village  and  preach  the  Gospel.  There, 
O  merchant,  that  is  your  village.    Of  course  I  could  carry  this  out  endlessly. 

You  can  find  your  work  to-morrow,  if  you  are  willing  to  do  exactly  what 
the  Scripture  says,  "  Be  instant  in  season,  out  of  season."    "  Be  instant  in  sea- 


e.|  You  will 
bey  the  great 
St  station  you 
tried  to  briim; 
)ccn  doing  it, 
ave  you  gone 
e  you  carried 
;o  Christ?  !f 
simply  have 
ip  the  (lospri 
ell  you  about 
;et  out  of  her 
»le.  She  just 
ity  where  she 


What  is  the 
ur  salesroom 
:.     Have  you 

had  many  a 
ny  employer, 
irs  and  never 
1  that  said  to 
g  for  a  busi- 
al  merchant, 
vas  the  most 

Now  if  you 
u  make  God 
th  the  world 
They  said 
topped.  All 
for  this  pur- 
:n.  That  is 
lat  one  after 
:re  no  longer 
»  but  I  have 
kvhole  estab- 
move  as  one 
he  was  not 
1  but  a  most 
pel.  There, 
idlessly. 
;xactly  what 
stant  in  sea- 


ONK   WHO   WAS   SAVKt).  |KI 

Hon,  out  of  season  "  means  be  unseastonably  in  season,  make  an  opportunity  out 
of  an  inopportune  occasion.  If  you  have  that  .npirit  you  will  find  work  anywtiere, 
no  matter  what  it  is. 

In  1876  there  was  an  inquiry  meeting  in  our  church,  during  Mr,  Moody's 
meetings  in  Boston.  The  church  was  filled  with  inquirtu,  and  he  sent  me 
around  to  find  workers  to  help.  I  came  upon  a  woman  with  a  baby.  She  \\as 
anxious  to  find  Christ,  for  when  I  approached  her  and  asked  if  sh-:  'vanted  to  lie 
saved,  she  said,  "  That  is  what  1  came  here  for."  I  came  to  a  gentleman  sitting 
on  the  front  seat,  a  fine  looking  man,  who  was  from  Hartford,  by  the  way,  and 
I  said,  "  Are  you  a  Christian  ?  "  "  Yes  sir."  I  said,  "  I  want  you  to  go  over 
there  and  talk  to  an  inquirer. "     He  said,  "  1  never  talked  tu  an  inquirer." 

"  Hut  you  are  a  Christian  ?  " 

"  Yes." 

"  Here  is  a  wom!»n  just  ready  to  be  led  to  Christ." 

"  Excuse  me.     I  should  not  know  what  to  say  to  her." 

\Vell,  because  I  could  not  get  him  to  go,  I  went  over  and  sat  down  beside 
the  woman.  Hut  the  baby  was  so  restless  that  she  could  not  give  me  her  atten- 
tion. This  man  kept  uatching  us  and  .saw  the  situation.  Hy  and  by  he  crept 
softly  down  and  gave  the  baby  some  candy  and  took  her  in  his  arms  and  carried 
her  to  the  other  side  of  the  church  and  held  her  for  an  hour,  while  I  led  the 
woman  to  Christ.  |  Applause.  |  He  found  that,  if  he  could  not  lead  a  soul  to 
Christ,  he  could  hold  the  baby,  while  some  one  else  did.  |  Laughter  and 
applause.  ]  I  think  a  special  blessing  rested  upon  that  work,  for  not  only  was 
the  mother  saved,  but  that  little  girl  came  to  Christ,  when  she  was  twelve  years 
old,  and  1  haven't  a  more  aggressive  Christian  in  my  church  than  that  baby  has 
grown  to  be. 

What  we  must  have  is  laymen  in  the  church,  who  know  how  to  preach  the 
Gospel  and  present  Jesus  Christ  simply,  to  go  into  the  next  villages. 

Do  you  say,  "  We  want  more  power  ?  "  Yes,  but  we  must  use  the  power 
we  have.  In  my  early  ministry  I  used  to  pray  much  that  the  Lord  would  send 
down  the  Holy  Ghost.  It  was  the  greatest  revelation,  when  I  discovered  that 
I  need  not  pray  that  He  would  send  down  the  Holy  (ihost  for  the  Holy  Ghost  is 
here.  And  what  we  want  to  do  is  get  into  co-operation  with  Him.  We  have 
been  trying,  straining  and  reaching  out  to  get  the  Holy  Ghost  not  knowing  that 
He  is  here.  '  Remember  it.  is  written,  "  Ye  shall  receive  power,  after  that  the 
Holy  Ghost  is  come  upon  you."  What  we  want  is  to  lean  upon  the  power  of 
the  Spirit.— /?«'.  A.  J.  Gordon,  D.  D.,  pages  74-79. 


ONE  WHO  WAS  SAVED. 
Canal  Street  is  at  the  head  of  Lake  Erie,  and  we  get  all  those  boatmen.  You 
do  not  have  to  go  to  Japan  to  find  a  heathen.  The  other  night,  when  I  was  just 
closing  up  the  mission,  and  there  was  no  one  there  with  me  but  the  janitor,  a 
handsome  looking  young  man  came  in  and  said,  "  What  is  the  matter  here  ?  " 
The  room  used  to  be  a  saloon,  as  Mr.  Collins  said,  and  we  have  been  so  poor  that 
we  haven't  got  a  sign  out  even,  and  he  thought  it  still  a  saloon.  I  said,  "  Come 
in  and  I  will  tell  you  about  it."  He  came  in  and  sat  down,  and  I  said,  "  This  is 
a  mission."    He  said,  I  have  always  kept  clear  of  missions  before  ;  never  got 


►,»»«■ 


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22 


PERSONAL    CHRISTIAN   WORK. 


inside  of  one."  I  asked  him  if  he  did  not  want  to  be  a  Christian.  He  said, 
"  Why !  Are  you  a  Christian  ?  "  I  said,  "  Yes."  He  said,  "  I  never  saw  but 
one  before.  She  was  a  cook  on  one  of  our  boats  and  she  said  she  was  a  Christian, 
but  you  don't  look  like  her."  [Laughter.]  I  asked  him  if  he  was  happy,  "  Do 
you  mean  the  way  a  fellow  fef^ls  when  he  is  drunk  ?  "  [Laughter]  Well,  1 
thought  I  would  get  soniething  into  him,  so  I  asked  him  if  he  knew  about  God. 
He  said  he  knew  that  people  believed  that  God  had  made  the  world,  and  that 
was  as  far  as  he  knew.  He  had  never  heard  our  Saviour's  name  except  in  oaths. 
He  did  not  know  who  our  Saviour  is.  This  was  not  pretense  ;  he  did  not  know 
anything.  This  man's  father  and  mother  died,  when  he  was  only  five  years  old. 
He  was  put  into  an  orphan  asylum,  when  he  was  six  or  seven.  He  ran  away 
from  there  and  went  to  sea.  He  had  spent  every  winter  up  in  the  lumber  camps 
in  Michigan.  You  know  what  that  is.  That  man  knew  nothing.  I  sat  down 
there  with  my  Bible  and  told  him  the  simple  story  of  Christ  from  beginning  to 
end.  He  looked  up  at  me  and  said,  "  I  suppose  every  fellow  knows  this  that  has 
a  father  and  mother.  I  never  knew  anything  of  this  before."  I  told  him  that  that 
was  so,  that,  if  people  had  Christian  fathers  and  mothers,  they  were  told  about  all 
this.  It  was  not  his  fault  that  he  did  not  know  about  it,  that  somebody  ought 
to  have  told  him  about  it.  I  acknowledged  that  to  him.  "  Well,"  he  said,  "  I 
haven't  anybody  that  cares  about  me."  I  said,  "  You  have  found  that  you  have 
a  Father,"  and  I  read  him  the  story  of  the  Prodigal  Son.  He  could  not  read  for 
himself,  only  spell  out  a  little.  I  said,  "He  is  your  Father,  and  if  He  is  your 
Father,  1  am  your  sister  and  you  are  my  brother,  and  the  first  thing  we  have  got 
to  do  is  to  kneel  down  and  tell  Him  about  it."  I  never  heard  such  a  touching 
prayer  in  my  life  as  that  man'r.  prayer,  and,  when  he  rose  to  his  feet,  he  said, 
"  This  is  the  first  time  this  man  has  spoken  to  the  One  who  made  him."  That 
man  went  of!  on  a  vessel  the  next  day.  We  wrote  to  him  up  in  Duiuth.  He 
came  back  again  in  twenty  days,  the  happiest  man  !  His  face  just  beamed  ! 
He  went  to  Chicago,  and  one  of  Mr.  Moody's  workers  helped  him  get  work 
there.  He  is  living  a  Christian  life  and  has  the  happiest  face,  I  think,  I  ever  saw. 
Miss  J.  D.  Cutter,  page  <)\. 


THE   BACKSLIDER. 

I  would  like  to  say  a  word.  Here  is  a  story  which  has  a  moral  to  it.  There 
was  a  man,  who  had  been  in  a  backslidden  state  for  nearly  twenty  years.  He 
thought  that  all  that  was  expected  of  a  servant  of  the  Lord  was  to  be  a  member 
of  the  church  and  serve  on  the  music  committee.  [Laughter.]  He  thought  that 
was  all  that  was  expected  of  a  Christian.  He  got  to  thinking  about  it  one  time 
?nd  said  to  himself,  "  I  remember  the  time  when  I  enjoyed  the  presence  of  Christ. 
What  was  it  that  turned  me  aside  ?  "  He  remembered  that  he  had  the  impres- 
sion that  he  ought  to  go  and  talk  with  a  colored  barber  about  his  soul,  but  he  did 
not  want  to  go,  and  as  he  looked  back  he  remembered  that  his  religious  and 
spiritual  feelings  began  to  decline  when  he  refused  to  do  this  duty. 

On  the  night  of  which  I  speak,  we  had  in  connection  with  our  churc!'  \  tent 
meeting,  and  he  was  drawn  in.  The  leader  said  to  him,  "  Brother,  are  you  a 
Christian  }  "  He  said,  "  I  am."  The  leader  said,  "  Look  here  !  cannot  you  come 
and  talk  to  this  man  ?  "    He  said  he  was  not  in  any  condition  to  talk  to  him. 


:^, 


mmii^mm 


TELLING  THE   STORY. 


23 


istian.    He  said, 
never  saw  but 
was  a  Christian, 
js  happy.    "  Do 
ghter]    Well,  I 
new  about  God. 
world,  and  that 
except  in  oaths, 
lie  did  not  know 
ly  five  years  old. 
.    He  ran  away 
e  lumber  camps 
ig.     I  sat  down 
im  beginning  to 
ws  this  that  has 
>ld  him  that  that 
re  told  about  all 
omebody  ought 
:li,"  he  said,  "  I 
i  that  you  have 
uld  not  read  for 
d  if  He  is  your 
ng  we  have  got 
iuch  a  touching 
lis  feet,  he  said, 
E  him."      That 
n  Duiuth.    He 
just  beamed  ! 
him  get  work 
nk,  I  ever  saw. 


al  to  it.  There 
nty  years.  He 
3  be  a  member 
[e  thought  that 
out  it  one  time 
ience  of  Christ, 
ad  the  impres- 
Dul,  but  he  did 
s  religious  and 

•  churc!'  ■,  tent 
:her,  are  you  a 
inot  you  come 
o  talk  to  him. 


The  leader  said,  "  Do  you  mean  that  you  know  nothing  about  the  love  of 
Christ  ?  Come  along,"  and  he  brought  him  forward  and  set  him  right  down  by 
a  colored  man.  [Laughter.]  "  Now,"  said  he,  "  there  is  the  man  I  want  you  to 
go  to  work  with."  The  man  said  afterwards,  "  I  did  it,  because  I  saw  I  must 
begin  where  I  broke  off.  And  as  soon  as  I  led  him  to  Christ,  I  came  right  back 
into  the  joy  of  the  Lord." — /tev.  A.J.  Gordon,  D.  D.,  page  105. 


TELLING  THE  STORY. 

I  have  been  very  m;ich  impressed  this  morning  with  this — the  power  of  telling 
the  story.  How  the  interest  rises  in  this  Convention,  as  we  hear  the  story  from 
the  workers ! 

I  was  impressed  with  the  story  our  sister  from  Buffalo  told.  The  first  time 
that  man  heard  the  Gospel,  he  was  interested  in  it,  and  the  reason  so  many  be- 
come Gospel  hardened  is,  because  no  one  has  the  wisdom  and  grace  to  pick  the 
fruit  in  its  first  interest  and  in  its  first  impression.  You  know  when  iron  Is  heat- 
ed and  gets  cool  it  is  harder  than  it  was  before.  We  need  wisdom  to  pick  the 
fruit  when  it  is  ripe  and  encouragement  to  tell  the  story  to  others  again  and 
^ain.  This  hymn  is  based  on  a  story  told  of  a  missionary  who  went  into  a  hut, 
where  a  little  boy  was  dying,  and  told  him  the  story  of  Jesus.  He  had  never 
iieard  it  before  and  grasped  it  with  the  simplicity  of  a  child's  faith  and  died  in 
the  Saviour's  love. 

Singing  "  Tell  It  Again.'  :, 

"  Into  a  room  where  a  little  child  lay  :  ^,  ' 

Dying  alone,  at  the  close  of  the  day,  \ 

News  of  salvation  we  carried — said  he  .     ^ 
'  Nobody  ever  has  told  it  to  me  ! 

" '  Did  he  so  love  me,  a  poor  little  boy  ?        , ,        ; 
Send  unto  me  the  good  tidings  of  joy  ? 
'    Need  I  not  perish  ?— my  hand  will  \\t.  hold  ? 
'  Nobody  ever  the  story  has  told ! '  '  "• 

"  Bending,  we  caught  the  last  words  of  his  breath. 
Just  as  he  entered  the  valley  of  death ; 
'  God  sent  his  Son  ! — whosoever ! '  said  he ; 
'  Then  I  am  sure  that  he  has  sent  for  me  ! ' 

"  Smiling  he  said,  as  his  last  sigh  was  spent, 
'  I  arri  so  glad  that  for  me  he  has  sent ! 
'  V/  hispered,  while  low  sank  the  sun  in  the  west : 

'  Lord,  I  believe  !  tell  it  now  to  the  rest  I 

Chorus — "  Tell  it  again  !  tell  it  again  ! 

Salvation's  story  repeat  o'er  and  o'er. 

Till  none  can  say  of  the  children  of  men, 

'  Nobody  ever  has  told  me  before.'  " — Rev.  F.  M.  Lamb,  page  108. 


THE  TEMPERANCE  PLEDGE. 
When  we  first  went  to  the  Bowery  Mission,  we  used  to  invite  men  to  sign 
the  pledge  and  give  them  a  Testament  with  a  temperance  pledge  for  them  to 
sign  on  '.he  first  page  or  fly  leaf,  but  for  the  past  six  years  I  have  not  asked  a 


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34  PERSONAL   CHRISTIAN    WORK. 

man  to  sign  the  pledge,  although  we  still  give  the  Testament.  I  believe  that 
when  I  bring  a  soul  facc-to-face  with  Christ,  I  have  no  business  to  put  a  pledge 
between  them  and  draw  his  mind  away  from  Him.  If  a  sinner  is  led  to  look  to 
and  accept  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  he  will  need  no  pledge  ;  and  1  have  learned  by 
experience  that  men  who  come  in  and  take  the  pledge  often  talk  more  about  it 
than  they  do  about  Jesus  Christ.  Very  often  wher  I  have  asked  a  man,  "  Are 
you  saved  ?  "  He  would  answer,  "  1  was  in  your  mission  last  night  or  a  month 
ago  and  took  the  pledge."  So  for  this  and  other  reasons,  I  never  offer  it,  but 
try  and  point  him  to  Jesus,  who  will  save  him  and  keep  Ifim,  not  only  from  drink 
but  from  all  sin. 

I  would  say  this  in  closing,  I  consider  that  one  of  the  best  things  the  Bowery 
Mission  has  ever  done  is  to  present  a  Testament  to  every  inquirer ;  and  in  these 
last  years  we  have  given  away  over  thirteen  thousand.  We  give  not  a  text  or 
chapter  merely,  but  the  whole  Gospel,  with  passages  marked  for  them  to  carry 
away  and  study  and  profit  by. 

As  a  rule  I  always  mark  and  urge  our  workers  to  mark  passages  specially 
adapted  to  inquirers,  for  instance.  "  Verily,  verily,  I  say  unto  you.  He  that  heareth 
my  word,  and  believeth  on  him  that  sent  me,  hath  everlasting  life,  and  shall  not 
come  into  condemnation  ;  but  is  passed  from  death  unto  life."  and  similar  texts. 
Now  there  is  one  passage  I  always  mark  to  give  to  a  drinking  man,  v\z:  II  Peter 
i :  i-io,  the  last  clause  of  the  tenth  verse  reading,  "  For  if  ye  do  these  things,  ye 
shall  never  fall."  That  is  a  wonderful  strengthening  promise  for  such  a  man,  if 
he  will  just  lay  hold  of  it  and  rest  upon  it. 

A  man  came  into  our  mission  a  while  ago,  a  man  who  had  lost  everything 
through  drink,  and  in  talking  with  him  I  used  that  passage  and  it  impressed  him. 
A  month  or  two  after\vard  he  referred  to  it  and  said,  "  Every  morning  and  every 
night  I  have  read  that.  It  is  my  encouragement  for  God  says  if  I  do  that  I  shall 
nevci  fall."  His  friends  had  all  given  him  up  and  said  they  would  do  nothing 
more  for  him.  But  they  have  confidence  in  him  now,  for  they  believe  he  is  saved. 
He  is  going  to  unite  with  Dr.  Deems'  church,  and  I  think  he  is  one  of  our  most 
hopefui  converts.— /.  Ward  Cht'Ms,  pages  112,  113. 


I  am  so  glad  the  Lord  does  not  make  us  all  work  alike.  I  think  the  pledge 
a  very  important  thing,  if  it  goes  in  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ.  I  have  a  pledge, 
and  I  present  it  very  often,  and  ask  m^n  to  sign  it. 

Now,  it  is  true,  if  you  call  a  .drunken  man  up  to  sign  the  pledge,  he  pats 
himself  on  the  back  and  says,  "  1  have  signed  the  pledge.  I  am  a  man  of  my 
word,  and  I  will  keep  it,"  He  goes  away  and  doesn't  think  of  Jesus  Christ. 
Men  come  to  me  sometimes  and  want  to  sign  the  pledge,  and  I  call  their  atten- 
tion to  the  heading,  "  In  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Nazareth  "  and  say,  "  Do 
you  mean  that  ?  "  Sometimes  a  man  says,  "  I  do  not  know  anything  about  that, 
but  I  want  to  sign  the  pledge."  "  You  do  not  need  Jesus  Christ  ?  "  "  No,  I  do 
not."  •'  You  say  you  do  not  need  Jesus  Christ.  Then  go  away  and  quit  drink- 
ing without  Him.  You  do  not  need  a  temperance  pledge.  But,  if  you  need 
Jesus  Christ,  there  is  the  pledge  that  goes  in  His  name,  and  many  a  man  has 
been  saved  by  '\\.."^John  G.  Wooley,  page  1 13.  1 14. 


'•*5k 


I  believe  that 
5  to  put  a  pledge 
is  led  to  look  to 
have  learned  by 
k  more  about  it 
Kd  a  man,  "  Are 
ight  or  a  month 
iver  offer  it,  but 
only  from  drink 

ings  the  Bowety 
■T ;  and  in  these 
ve  not  a  text  or 
r  them  to  carry 

ssages  specially 
He  that  heareth 
:.  and  shall  not 
d  similar  texts. 
1,  viz  :  II  Peter 
hese  things,  ye 
such  a  tnan,  if 

lost  everything 
mpressed  him. 
ling  and  every 
do  that  I  shall 
lid  do  nothing 
'e  he  is  saved, 
e  of  our  most 


nk  the  pledge 
lave  a  pledge, 

edge,  he  pats 
a  man  of  my 
Jesus  Christ. 
11  their  atten- 
nd  say,  "  Do 
f  about  that, 
"  No,  I  do 
1  quit  drink- 
,  if  you  need 
y  a  man  has 


THE  CONVERSION   OF  CHILDREN. 


35 


THE  CONVERSION  OF  CHILDREN. 
I  most  heartily  believe  in  bringing  the  children  to  Christ.  I  remember  talking 
to  a  poor  lost  woman  in  the  city  of  Chicago.  .She  saiH,  "  You  are  the  first  per- 
son that  ever  asked  me  to  come  to  Christ.  I  was  a  member  of  a  Sunday  school " 
—I  will  not  tell  what  the  church  was—"  six  years,  and  nobodv  ever  spoke  to  me 
about  coming  to  Christ."  It  seems  to  me  that  in  taking  these  children  in  we 
want  to  be  sure  they  have  been  born  again,  not  "  Do  you  love  Jesus  ?  "  or  "  Do 
you  take  Jesus  Christ  as  your  Saviour  ?  "  but  I  believe  'a  conviction  of  sin  in 
children.  The  deepest  conviction  of  sin  I  have  ever  seen  has  been  in  children. 
It  is  produced  in  the  same  way  as  Dr.  (lordon  said,  by  holding  up  the  crucified 
Christ.— A'rt'.  A'.  A.  Torrey,page  131. 

You  all  know  that  I  love  the  children,  and  I  am  glad  to  hear  this  young 
Brother  speak  these  words,  yet  I  could  see  when  he  got  through  that  there  were 
many,  who  did  not  believe  a  word  of  it.  They  said.  "  He  got  them  to  stand  up 
and  say  they  loved  Jesus,  and,  then,  he  took  them  into  the  church  and  did  not 
examine  them."  Now  it  may  be  the  way  he  put  it  made  you  say  you  did 
not  believe  in  it.  I  believe  that  these  children  were  converted,  that  he  did  a 
great  deal  more  than  he  told.  I  believe  he  told  them  that  they  were  sinners  in 
God's  sight,  that  they  needed  a  change  of  heart.  I  believe  that  he  told  them  the 
story  of  Christ's  love.  He  might  have  emphasized  the  doctrine  of  substitution, 
the  great  central  doctrine  of  God's  work.  I  believe  he  explained  to  them  how 
Christ  died  on  Calvary's  cross  for  us,  how  He  was  wounded  for  our  transgres- 
sions, how  He  was  bruised  for  our  iniquities,  how  He  was  chastised,  the  jusi  for 
the  unjust.  I  believe  that  he  believed  and  those  Christians,  who  worked  with 
him,  believed  the  words  of  Jesus,  "  I,  if  I  be  lifted  up  from  the  earth,  will  draw  all 
men  unto  me." — Rei>.  E.  Payson  Hammond,  page  1,31.  , 


.a--j:-:%s ; 


I  just  want  to  call  attention  to  the  danger  of  resistance.  You  know  the  Lord 
said,  "  Suffer  the  little  children  to  come  unto  me,  and  forbid  them  not."  You 
know  the  position  of  those,  who  do  not  believe  on  the  Friend  of  little  children. 
Their  infl-'ence  is  intensely  evil  on  the  minds  and  hearts  of  little  children.  Woe 
to  them  lat  put  stumbling  blocks  in  the  way  of  little  children  to  keep  them  from 
coming  to  Jesus.—  W.  H.  Howland,  page  133. 

THREE  WINNING  FORCES. 
There  is  no  use  trying  to  work  for  God,  unless  we  work  in  His  Spirit's  power. 
I  sometimes  fear  that  we  workers  mistake  machinery  for  power.  You  will  find 
that  many  and  many  a  church,  and  many  a  mission,  and  many  and  many  other 
Christian  enterprises  cost  a  great  deal  of  money,  but  out  of  them  there  is  but  little 
harvest.  Beloved,  we  ought  to  have  means  commensurate  with  the  effort,  but 
we  ought  to  have  grace  for  the  effort  as  well.  That  is  the  great  winning  force 
in  this  old  world  that  the  Christian  worker  must  have.  I  name  it  first  and  fore- 
most, and  knowing  of  course  that  the  Cross  of  Christ  has  been  lifted  in  your 
lives.  I  say  first  and  foremost,  above  every  method  and  means,  and  above  all 
machinery,  the  one  thing  that  the  worker  needs  in  order  to  win  in  this  world,  the 
one  thing  that  will  never  fail  if  he  has  it.  is  the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost.     Oh. 


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PERSONAL    CHRISTIAN    WORK. 


that  wfr might  make  more  of  the  Spirit's  power  in  our  work,  and  in  our  lives! 

The  second — let  me  name  the  third  too — the  second  is  the  Word  of  God,  and 
the  third  is  great  grace.— ^<t.  C.  H.  Y at  man,  page  144. 

HOW  HE  WAS  SAVED. 
I  am  a  redeemed  drunkard.  I  was  dying  in  one  of  the  saloons  with  delirium 
tremens.  It  was  at  the  end  of  a  long  spree,  and  I  did  noi  know  one  day  from 
another.  I  sat  on  a  whiskey  barrel,  and  I  felt  my  time  ^'A  come.  I  had  had 
delirium  tremens  four  nights  in  succession.  I  could  not  eat  or  sleep,  and,  when  I 
was  in  that  condition,  Jesus  Christ  the  Lord  from  Heaven  came  to  me  and  put 
His  arms  about  me  and  showed  me  my  awful  condition,  cJid  (rom  that  hour  I 
started  for  Heaven.  I  said,  "  I  will  die  in  the  street,  before  I  take  another  drink." 
First  I  wen^  to  the  station  house  and  had  myself  locked  up,  and  in  the  morning 
they  sent  me  to  court,  and  finally  they  let  me  out,  and  I  went  to  my  Brother's 
house.  This  was  eight  years  ago  last  April.  When  I  got  able  to  walk,  I  went 
to  the  Cremorne  Mission  and  there  I  saw  Jerry  McAuley — the  apostle  to  the  out- 
cast and  drunkard.  In  the  greatest  silence  he  told  the  story  of  what  Jesus  had 
done  for  him,  how  he  was  a  thief  and  drunkard,  and  how  Jesus  had  saved  him 
fourteen  years  before,  and  that  he  never  had  wanted  to  drink  since.  I  said.  "  O 
God,  give  me  something  like  this."  When  the  meeting  was  over,  I  raised  my 
hand  for  prayer,  and  we  all  knelt  down  to  pray,  a  great  crowd  of  drunkards.  I 
assure  you  I  did  not  look  as  I  do  now.  I  looked  awful  then,  and  Jerry  said, 
*'  We  are  going  to  pray  " — Oh,  the  simplicity  of  it — "  We  believe  God  can  help 
us."  Down  we  knelt  and  Jerry  prayed  first.  He  said,  "  O  God,  pity  these  poor 
fellows.  They  have  got  themselves  into  an  awful  hole.  Wont  You  help  them 
out,  for  Jesus'  sake  ?  "  Then  Mrs.  McAuley  prayed — and  as  she  prayed  she 
wept — that  God  would  save  these  poor  drunkards.  "  You  saved  me,  and  I  was 
a  drunkard."  Jerry  made  us  all  pray,  and,  as  he  came  to  me,  although  I  came 
there  to  be  saved,  I  shrank  from  it,  for  the  devil  whispered  so  many  things  in  my 
ears.  He  said,  "  How  can  you  be  a  Christian  ?  "  and  many  other  things,  but 
glory  to  God !  the  Spirit  said,  "  Come."  i  said,  "  Jerry,  pray  for  me."  He  said, 
"  All  the  prayers  in  the  world  wont  help  you,  unless  you  pray  for  yourself."  I 
said,  "  Dear  Jesus,  wont  You  help  me  !  "  and  quick  as  lightning  the  answer  came, 
and  I  have  never  from  that  second  to  this  wanted  a  drink  of  whiskey.  I  have 
never  wanted  to  steal  or  lie  or  gamble. — 5.  H.  Kadley,  page  207. 


"WHAT  HE  PROFESSES  TO  BE." 
Until  we  can,  like  our  Master,  go  down  among  the  poor  and  lost,  we  do  not 
deserve  the  name  of  Christian  worker. 

There  is  a  dear  colored  minister  who  comes  to  my  Bible  class  in  Toronto  on 
Sunday  afternoon.  He  was  an  enlisted  soldier  in  your  war,  a  grand  fellow.  He 
has  a  way  of  praying  that  does  me  more  good  than  anything  else.  He  prays 
always  this  prayer,  every  Sunday.  He  says,  "  Lord,  there  is  that  man  that  is 
walking  in  front  of  us,  that  is  dipping  out  of  the  well  of  truth  for  us ;  Lord, 
make  that  man  what  he  professes  to  be."  [Laughter.]  Every  time  I  am  sure  it 
IS  going  to  come.  I  wish  everybody  also  could  hear  that  prayer  for  themselves 
in  their  homes,  -.nd  in  their  daily  life,  "  Lord,  make  that  man  what  he  professes 
to  be." —  W.  H,  Howland,  page  209. 


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id  in  our  lives ! 
Vord  of  God,  and 


KJns  with  delirium 
low  one  day  from 
:ome.  I  had  had 
sleep,  and,  when  I 
ne  to  me  and  put 

from  that  hour  I 
ke  another  drink." 
id  in  the  morning 
t  to  my  Brother's 
e  to  walk,  I  went 
postle  to  the  out- 
F  what  Jesus  had 
IS  had  saved  him 
ince.  I  said.  "O 
)ver,  I  raised  my 
of  drunkards.  I 
I,  and  Jerry  said, 
!ve  God  can  help 
I,  pity  these  poor 
t  You  help  them 

she  prayed  she 
id  me,  and  I  was 
although  I  came 
any  things  in  my 
ither  things,  but 
■  me."  He  said, 
for  yourself."  I 
he  answer  came, 
'hiskey.    I  have 


I  lost,  we  do  not 

B  in  Toronto  on 
ind  fellow.  He 
else.  He  prays 
lat  man  that  is 
»  for  us;  Lord, 
me  I  am  sure  it 
for  themselves 
lat  he  professes 


GO  TO  WORK. 

I  most  emphatically  say  that  you  want  to  pray  for  ASSURANCE  if  yoa 
haven't  got  it.  it  is  a  most  unfortunate  and  miserable  thing  to  go  to  an  uncon- 
verted person  a:.d  begin  to  talk  about  Jesus  and  show  by  your  halting 
heart  and  halting  steps  that  you  are  not  quite  sure  whether  Jesus  is  to  be  depend- 
ed upon  or  not.  But,  if  you  know  that  Jesus  is  your  Saviour,  and,  if  He  has 
got  YOU  saved,  He  will  send  you  out  with  that  blessed  assurance  that  you  can 
take  to  other  people.  When  you  start  out  in  this  work,  let  that  be  the  first  thing 
you  make  sure  of. 

Now,  when  anybody  is  saved  I  want  to  see  them  at  work.    Some  folks  think 
you  should  coddle  and  tend  them  for  a  long  time  first.    They  say,  "  Let  us  teke 
this  man  who  is  converted,  and  we  will  train  him.    See,  he  is  full  of  fire,  and  the 
love  of  Christ  is  constraining  him.    Now  we  will  take  him  to  church  and  put 
him  in  a  pew  and  preach  at  him  for  a  year  or  two,  and,  when  we  get  him  in 
good  trim,  then  we  will  set  him  at  work. "    You  find  to  your  sorrow  you  cannot 
get  any  good  work  out  of  him.    Bless  you  !  the  man  is  all  burned  out  by  that 
time.    What  is  the  matter  with  the  great  majority  of  Christians  ?    They  were 
not  put  right  at  work,  and  the  result  is  they  have  lost  their  first  fire  and  the  con- 
straint of  love  and  think  that  their  business  is  to  hear  and  pay  the  preacher.    He 
is  the  man  paid  to  do  all  the  work,  and  human  nature  helps  wonderfully  towards 
this  conclusion,  ahd  it  doesn't  take  long  lo  train  a  new  convert  into  this.    That 
is  the  way  the^majority  of  them  are  spoiled.     There  are  thousands,  yea,  ten 
thousands  spoiled  Christians  in  the  world  to-day.    They  have  been  spoiled  by 
coddling  them  and  doubting  them.    The  Moravians  understand  better  how  to 
manage.    They  give  a  new  convert  three  days  to  rejoice  and  then  set  him  at 
work.    Why,  some  fellows  think  it  is  going  to  hurt  the  Lord's  cause,  if  they  let 
a  man  go  to  work  as  soon  as  he  is  converted,  if  he  fails  or  falls.  Hurt  the  Lord's 
cause  !    Why,  suppose  he  tumbles  and  tumbles,  until  he  revolves  like  a  jiggering 
wheel,  what  difference  does  it  make  to  the  Almighty's  plans !    Do  you  suppose 
it  is  going  to  stop  anybody  from  serving  God  ?    Do  you  think  it  is  going  to  stop 
the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  saving  men  ?    Put  them  to  work.    They  will  do  no 
harm.    Let  everyone  who  professes,  conversion  go  to  work  and  serve  the  Lord 
Jesus  Christ.    Let  them  try  and  see  what  they  can  do.    "  By  their  fruits  ye  shall 
know  them."     1  tell  you,  when  a  man  goes  to  work  with  the  first  love  of  God  in 
his  soul,  he  is  full  of  fire.    The  love  of  Christ  constrains  him,  urges  him.    It  has 
got  hold  of  him.  He  may  be  full  of  tares  to  be  burned  out,  but  the  love  of  Christ 
is  constraining  him  to  work  as  the  fire  bums.    There  was  a  man  down  at  the 
mission  the  other  night,  who  got  up  in  a  timid  way  and  said,  "  Three  days  ago  I 
gave  my  heart  to  Christ."    That  night  after  we  show-Christians  had  all  gone 
home,  that  fellow  goes  out  and  catches  a  man  and  brings  him  in  and  gets  him 
saved.    That  man  was  three  days  a  Christian ;  how  many  Christians  is  he  worth 
that  you  know  ?    How  many  Christians  have  done  as  much  ?    I  am  not  blaming 
you  any  more  than  I  blame  myself  for  doubting  and  questioning  God's  work 
and  God's  workmen.     I  tell  you,  when  the  fire  is  burning,  when  you  have 
the  love  of  God  in  your  heart,  go  to  work  !   Go  to  work  I    Go  TO  DO  God's 
WORK !    Ah,    here  is  the  first  lesson  a  Christian  worker  has  to  have,  and 
this   is  the  lesson  we  have  all  got  to  learn  if  our  work  is  to  be  a  blessed 


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a8  PKRSONAI.    CHRISTIAN    WORK.  <v 

one.  In  Ephesians  ii :  lo,  we  read,  "  We  are  his  workmanship,  created 
in  Christ  Jesus  ymlo ^^ood  works,  which  tlod  /laih  be/ore  ordained"  (or  better, 
"  prepared  "),  "  that  we  should  walk  in  them."  Now  there  are  these  two  things 
we  learn  from  this  Scripture.  We  Christians  are  His  workmanship,  and  the 
works  we  are  going  to  do  God  has  prepared.  They  are  two  tremendous  things 
to  learn,  and,  when  we  get  them  in  our  hearts  and  get  hold  of  them,  we  are  on 
different  ground  than  we  were  when  we  started.  You  cannot  see  exactly  where 
I  am  going  to  carry  you.  but  I  wan',  to  tell  you  that  the  young  Christian  generally 
gets  into  the  mistake  of  working  in  his  own  strength.  After  his  conversion  you 
arc  pretty  sure  to  find  him  falling  into  working  in  that  way,  till  he  finds  out  high- 
er truth.  I  remember  my  first  experience  was  that  I  wanted  to  do  all  sorts  of 
splendid  things,  to  have  results  that  men  would  praise  me  for.  I  went  to  work 
for  the  hospital  first,  and  I  gave  my  whole  mind  to  it  and  helped  to  make  it  a 
great  success  and  got  great  praise  for  it.  1  thought  I  was  doing  highest  service. 
It  was  altogether  on  the  flesh  side,  but  it  was  what  seemed  to  me  then  the  high- 
est ser\'ice.  It  was  just  what  the  natural  man  delights  in  doing.  I  went  along 
and  entered  into  Christian  work  of  one  kind  and  another,  and  I  took  great  pride 
in  this  and  that,  trying  to  build  up  big  Sunday  schools  and  chnrches  and  a  big 
mission  work,  but  I  did  not  discover  for  a  long  time  that  all  my  building  :>," 
things  was  for  my  own  glory  and  not  for  Christ's  glory.  Itctook  a  long  time 
and  some  tribulation  for  me  to  see  this,  and  it  greatly  upset  me,  when  I  saw  it. 
I  found  out  at  last  that  I  was  "  His  workmanship  "  and  that  it  was  not  my  busi- 
ness to  work  for  my  glory  or  care  for  anything  except  the  work  God  had  set 
before  me  and  had  prepared  for  me  to  do.  Oh,  I  felt  sad,  when  I  looked  back 
and  saw  how  the  prepared  work  had  been  neglected  for  vain  service  ! 

You  want  to  ask  yourselves  whose  glory  you  are  working  for,  and  what  you 
are  building  for.  Are  you  seeking  to  have  men  say,  "  That  is  good  or  splendid  }  " 
Are  you  turning  around  and  watching  for  a  nice  thing  to  be  said  of  your  work, 
your  sermons,  your  Bible  talks,  your  sympathetic  kindness  }  Bless  you !  it  is  all 
of  the  flesh  and  pride  of  man.  You  haven't  got  the  Spirit  of  working  for  God. 
There  is  no  life  in  your  work  for  God.  While  this  is  so,  it  is  worthless,  for  it  is 
your  work  And  your  own  glory,  and  it  is  not  God-prepared  work  for  you.  Glory 
to  Christ !  Let  us  give  our  hearts  to  His  work,  for  we  can  put  our  hearts  into  it 
with  confidence,  for  there  are  no  failures  in  His  prepared  work,  and,  when  we 
begiM  to  work  for  His  glory,  we  will  see  the  difference  in  the  power.  The  life  in 
you  springs  to  power,  and  you  do  the  work  God  has  got  for  you  to  do  on  this 
earth.    First  it  is  love,  and  then  it  is  life  and  power.    It  is  a  new  spirit. 

Who  is  it  that  is  doing  the  work  ?  It  is  God  and  Christ  doing  the  work 
by  the  agency  of  the  Spirit  down  here  through  those  who  are  willing  to  be  used. 
They  are  the  ones  who  are  doing  the  work.  Note  the  instruments.  We  are 
simply  instruments  of  His  workmanship  to  do  the  work  He  has  prepared  for 
us  to  do  here,  I  like  that  pilgrim  in  the  "  Pilgrim's  Progress,"  who  doesn't 
worry  about  his  work,  but  says,  "  Wherever  I  have  seen  the  print  of  the  Lord's 
shoe  in  the  earth,  there  have  I  coveted  to  set  my  foot  too.  I  love  to  search  out 
the  foot-marks  and  put  my  foot  where  I  see  the  print  of  the  Lord's  foot." 

When  you  begin  to  understand  the  principle  of  the  prepared  work  and 
the  purity  and  holiness  of  everything  that  is  to  go  into  it,  you  get  a  sense  of  God 


■   Km 


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workmanship,  created 
'■e  ordained"  (or  better, 
lere  are  these  two  things 

workmanship,  and  the 
:  two  tremendous  things 
hold  of  them,  we  are  on 
:annot  see  exactly  where 
oung  Christian  generally 
After  his  conversion  you 
ly,  till  he  finds  out  high- 
anted   to  do  all  sorts  of 
ne  for.     I  went  to  work 
ind  helped  to  make  it  a 
s  doing  highest  service, 
ed  to  me  then  the  high- 
1  doing.     I  went  along 
',  and  I  took  great  pride 
md  chnrches  and  a  big 
hat  all  my  building  _->" 
Itttook  a  long  time 
set  me,  when  I  saw  it. 
lat  it  was  not  my  busi- 

the  work  God  had  set 
1.  when  I  looked  back 
■ain  service ! 
ting  for,  and  what  you 
:  is  good  or  splendid  }  " 

be  said  of  your  work, 
>  ?  Bless  you  !  it  is  all 
it  of  working  for  God. 
it  is  worthless,  for  it  is 

work  for  you.  Glory 
1  put  our  hearts  into  it 
I  work,  and,  when  we 
w  power.    The  life  in 

for  you  to  do  on  this 
a  new  spirit. 
:hr!st  doing  the  work 
ire  willing  to  be  used, 
instruments.  We  are 
He  has  prepared  for 
)gress."  who  doesn't 
he  print  of  the  Lord's 
I  love  to  search  out 

Lord's  foot." 
PREPARED  work  and 
'U  get  a  sense  of  God 


GO   TO  WORK.  29 

and  His  work  down  here,  and  you  get  the  power  of  God  and  believe  that  God 
will  send  means  for  His  work,  and  things  will  look  better  and  easier,  and  you 
can  wait  in  faith  for  God's  success  and  not  throw  down  your  tools  at  every 
disappointment.  Suppose  God  threw  down  His  tools,  where  would  our  work 
be?  "  Without  me,"  says  Jesus,  "  ye  can  do  nothing."  We  are  only  instru- 
mental atoms  in  the  marvellous  work  that  is  going  to  be  done.  Let  it  go  on, 
and  let  us  make  sure  that  we  are  not  trying  to  push  our  little  work  forward  as 
one  of  the  joists  of  God's  work.  Possess  this  little  time,  which  is  thirty,  forty  or 
sixty  years,  and  then  pass  by  into  the  fullness  of  time,  and  thus  keep  simply  in 
God's  prepared  work.  Let  God  use  you.  Let  the  great  Holy  Spirit  of  (iod  teach 
you.  Let  Christ  send  His  mighty  love  and  power  over  you,  into  you.  Mark  you, 
so  let  God  employ  every  moment  of  your  time  down  here,  that  you  may  rejoice 
that  Jesus  lives  in  you,  and,  that  as  a  conveyance  you  are  being  used  in  His  life 
and  work,  and  not  working  at  poor,  miserable,  foolish  plans  and  calling  it  God's 
work  and  having  it  burned  up  by  and  by.    I  want  you  to  realize  that. 

What  do  we  need  after  this  ?  I  am  going  to  give  you  a  qualification  now 
that  is  hard  to  learn.  It  was  a  bitter  thing  for  me  to  learn.  I  thought  I  was  an 
earnest,  practical  Christian  in  those,  my  days  of  failure.  I  could  talk  with  every- 
body and  about  everything,  but,  I  tell  you,  you  have  got  to  have  the  power 
of  God  doing  His  work  in  your  soul,  before  you  can  realize  what  God  means 
you  to  do.  He  is  going  to  burn  up  all  self-confidence.  If  He  is  to  set  you  apart 
for  holy  work  and  maKC  you  fit  for  it,  you  must  be  rid  of  the  power  of  your  old 

self. 

"  There  is  a  Tan  who  often  stands, 

Btt ween  me  and  Thy  glory. 

His  name  is  self, 

My  carnal  self, 

Self-seeking  self. 

Stands  twixt  me  and  Th;  glory. 
The  human  will  of  Christ  went  down.  anA  your  will,  your  independent, 
separate  will  has  got  to  go  down,  as  Christ's  will  «  ent  down.  If  you  have  given 
up  your  will  to  God  and  had  the  battle  over  it.  you  have  had  such  a  fight  as  you 
will  remember.  You  will  never  .'crget  it.  Christ  had  a  battle,  before  His  will  went' 
down.  If  it  was  a  battle  for  that  holy  Man,  the  holiest  One  of  the  holy  ones  to 
give  up  His  will,  how  many  thousand  times  harder  would  it  be  for  such  poor, 
weak,  sinful  creatures  like  yo\i  and  me  to  give  up  our  wills  and  serve  God,  work 
for  God,  bless  God  and  praise  Him  from  our  heart !  How  impossible,  except  it 
were  the  doing  of  Christ !—  IV.  H.  Howland,  pages  209,  21 1,  212.  213.  214. 

HOW  ^  ONE  WAY. 
There  is  in  my  town  a  man,  who  loves  young  men  and  desires  to  bring 
them  to  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  and  he  has  made  something  of  a  discovery.  He 
has  discovered  that  a  great  many  people,  who  will  not  walk  with  you,  will  take  a 
ride  with  you  when  you  ask  them,  and  he  devotes  his  spare  change  to  hiring  a 
horse  and  buggy,  and  he  drives  along  the  street  in  the  early  evening  and  meets 
some  young  fellow,  and  says,  "  Look  here,  wont  you*  take  a  ride  with  me  ?  " 
The  moon  is  just  coming  up,  and  the  young  man,  who  will  not  walk  with  Y  :, 
gets  into  the  carriage  for  a  drive. 


o'jkju^j^r.itif  .■■';■:«  - 


■  ^'  ::7t 


'il 


'ii.'lt 


IN'ii 


30 


PERSONAL  CHRISTIAN   WURK. 


Often  before  these  evening  rides  are  over,  through  this  consecrated  Christian 
layman,  the  love  of  Jesus  is  poured  into  the  ears  of  the  young  men. — /iev.  H,  N. 
Kinney,  pages  278,  279. 


WILLING  TO  DO  ANYTHING. 

For  seven  years  1  was  one  of  those  .stay-back,  silent  Christians — perhaps 
you  may  know  what  I  mean  by  that— who  profess  to  be  Christians,  but  never 
say  anything,  but  seven  years  a?o  the  Salvation  Army  came  to  Toronto,  and 
there  was  a  good  deal  said  about  it.  We  used  to  see  them  sometimes  on  the 
streets,  and  I  made  up  my  mind  I  would  go  and  see  what  they  were  like.  I 
walked  two  miles  to  see  what  they  were  like,  and,  when  I  go>  there,  my  dear 
friends.  I  found  that  those  dear  people  were  very  nice,  and  they  were  singing 
this  little  hymn.  "  I  would  follow  Jesus  anywhere,  everywhere."  As  I  stood 
there  I  wondered  how  it  was  I  could  not  do  that.  I  was  a  Christian.  They 
were  just  getting  ready  to  go  out  on  the  street-comer.  They  went  out  presently, 
and  back  they  came  again,  and  a  lot  of  tramps  and  lots  of  other  people  camo-in 
with  them.  They  came  in  singing,  and  I  thought  they  were  the  happiest  people 
I  had  ever  met  in  my  life,  and  I  thought,  if  I  could  only  be  as  happy  as  they,  I 
would  be  willing  to  do  anything.  As  I  sat  there  listening  to  the  testimonies  of 
one  and  another  as  they  told  what  the  Lord  had  done  tc  'em,  through  the 
Salvation  Army  being  on  the  street-comers,  I  thought,  *'  Lord  Jesus  show  me 
what  is  the  matter,  if  there  is  anything  I  have  got  to  give  up.  I  want  to  be 
happy  like  these  people.  I  would  be  willing  to  do  anything."  And  right  there 
He  did  fill  me  with  Himself.  Oh,  how  He  did  fill  me  !  and  I  was  just  as  happy 
as  they  were.  I  went  home  and  told  my  wife  about  it,  and  she  said,  "  Dc  you 
really  mean  it  ?  "  I  said,  "  Yes,  it's  grand,  and.  wife.  I  am  going  to  be  all  for 
Jesus." 

'.  commenced  the  following  Wednesday.  I  went  to  church— we  have  some 
fouv  or  five  hundred  people  in  our  church — to  prayer-meeting,  and  as  soon  as 
D' .  Thomas  had  read  a  chapter  in  the  Bible  and  said  a  few  words  he  threw 
op<^n  the  meeting.  Now  where  the  Spirit  is,  there  is  liberty.  When  he  gave 
the  inviution,  in  a  flash  I  was  on  my  feet.  I  do  not  know  how  I  got  there,  but 
I  hollered  out  right  there,  "  Follow  Jesus  anywhere,  everywhere.  I  will  follow 
Jesus."  They  thought  I  had  gone  crazy  sure.  [Laughter.]  They  could  not 
make  it  out.  Before  that  they  had  never  heard  me  speak  in  meeting.  They 
were  sure  I  had  gone  crazy.  So  after  the  meeting  was  over  I  got  to  talking 
with  this  one  and  that  one,  but  they  would  not  seem  to  have  much  to  do  with 
me.  The  next  Wednesday  night  I  went  there.  My  wife  didn't  like  it  very 
well.  She  had  heard  some  passing  remarks  and  saw  some  laughing  at  me,  but 
I  said,  "  Never  mind  me.  It  is  all  for  Jesus.  '  If  God  be  for  us,  who  can  be 
against  us  ? '  "  From  that  time,  dear  friends,  I  got  out  into  mission  worit.— y^ 
C.  Davis,  pages  284.  285. 


THE  ANTS  AND  THE  GRASSHOPPER. 
Mr.  Chairman.  I  am  Cot  going  to  speak  so  particulariy  about  my  street 
work  in  Washington  as  I  just  want  to  give  the  people  here  an  idea  of  the  impor- 
tance of  practical  work  in  this  very  line.    The  world  is  sinking  and  God  calls  to 


,."»>»• 
-*-• 


^WB^SBmmmmm 


1 


isecrated  Christian 


hristians— perfiaps 
ristians,  but  never 
le  to  Toronto,  and 

sometimes  on  the 
they  were  lijce.  I 
rot  there,  my  dear 
they  were  singing 
ere."    As  I  stood 

Christian.  They 
vtnt.  out  presently, 
er  people  cam».in 
le  happiest  people 

hrppy  as  they,  I 
:he  testimonies  of 
'  «m,  through  the 

0  Jesus  show  me 
'P-    I  want  to  be 

And  right  there 
was  just  as  happy 
he  said,  "  Dc  you 
>ing  to  be  all  for 

h— we  have  some 

f,  and  as  soon  as 

'  words  he  threw 

When  he  gave 

'  I  got  there,  but 

i«.    I  will  follow 

They  could  not 

meeting.    They 

1  got  to  talking 
much  to  do  with 
dn't  like  it  very 
ghing  at  me,  but 

us,  who  can  be 
ission  work.—/. 


»bout  my  street 
»  of  the  impor- 
nd  God  calls  to 


OUTLINES   or   DOCTRINE   ESSENTIAL   FOR  WORKERS. 


3t 


US  from  the  throne  of  His  power  to  reach  out  the  strong  arm  of  our  help  to  up- 
lift the  distressed,  the  weak  and  the  fallen,  and  that  is  one  of  the  great  mission!) 
of  the  true  church  of  God,  and  so,  when  you  all  get  as  practical  with  your  religion 
and  use  your  carriages  for  Gospel  purposes  as  gladly  as  you  use  them  for  polit- 
ical purposes,  you  will  cha.se  the  devil  to  the  hell  where  he  belongs  and  uplift  the 
world.  The  way  you  run  the  average  church  is  like  something  I  saw  out  in 
California,  where  I  have  been  living.  This  is  the  way  they  run  churches.  I 
went  out  in  the  yard  and  saw  a  dead  grasshopper,  and  it  was  moving.  I 
said,  "What  in  the  woild  is  moving  that  grasshopper?"  [Laughter.]  I 
finally  saw  that  it  was  a  little  tiny  ant  pulling  that  great  grasshopper,  and,  as  I 
looked,  1  discovered  that  there  were  three  more  ants  that  were  not  doing  a 
thing.  They  were  riding  on  the  grasshopper.  [Laughter.]  That  is  about  the 
way  you  run  some  of  your  churcnes.  [Laughter.]  You  get  a  little  bit  of  a 
poor  preacher  and  make  him  pull  the  whole  business  and  al!  the  church  members 
do  is  to  ride.  [Laughter  ]  What  God  wants  us  to  do  is  to  start  out  for  the 
uplifting  of  the  distressed  and  ia}\ta.— Rev.  John  H.  Hector,  page  291. 


OUTLINES  OF  DOCTRINE  ESSENTIAL  FOR  WORKERS. 

I  know  very  well  that  a  man's  knowledge  of  truth  may  be  very  scanty  and 
yet  he  be  so  full  of  love  to  lost  men  and  so  full  of  the  Holy  Ghost  that  he  will  be 
wonderfully  useful  in  winning  men  to  Christ.  I  know  beside  that,  that  some 
men  are  full  of  truth,  wonderfully  and  deeply  versed  in  the  doctrines  of  God's 
Word,  but  they  are  so  barren  of  love  and  so  empty  of  the  power  of  the  Holy 
Ghost  that  they  are  good  for  nothing.  I  had  rather  have  a  man  whose  knowl- 
edge of  the  truth  was  meagre,  but  whose  knowledge  was  quickened  and  empow- 
mA  by  the  Hdy  Ghost  than  to  have  a  man,  who  had  a  great  knowledge  of 
truth  but  knew  nothing  of  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  yet,  for  all  that, 
friends,  there  are  certain  great  truths,  which  every  man  who  conducts  a  mission, 
every  man  who  assumes  in  any  sense  to  be  a  leader  in  Christian  work,  ought  to 
be  settled  upon. 

The  first  doctrine  that  every  teacher  and  leader  should  be  settled  upori,  is  that 
of  the  absolute  and  infallible  authority  of  the  Bible,  the  absolute  and  infallible 
authority  of  the  Bible  from  the  first  chapter  of  Genesis  to  the  last  chapter  of 
Revelation. 

Second;  the  divinity  of  Jesus  of  Nazareth.  In  Mark  xiv :  61-62,  the  Saviour 
Himself  affirmed  under  oath  that  He  was  the  Son  of  God. 

Third ;  that  the  death  of  Jesus  Christ  is  a  substitution  for  the  punishment  of 
man's  sin  that  met  all  the  claims  of  God  and  His  law  again&t  the  sinner. 

Fourth ;  the  utter  ruin  of  human  nature  by  sin,  and  consequent  necessity  01 
the  new  birth  as  the  condition  of  admissk>n  to  the  Kingdom  of  God. 

Fifth  ;  that  .he  Holy  Spirit,  a  living,  divine  person  is  the  author  of  this  new 
nature,  and  that  the  Word  of  God  is  the  seed  that  the  Spirit  of  God  drops  into 
the  soul  and  invigorates,  out  of  which  the  new  life  springs. 

Sixth  ;  that  salvation  is  a  free  gift,  to  be  obtained  entirely,  solely  by  faith. 

Seventh ;  that  the  faith  that  saves  is  one  of  four  things ;  first,  simply  the 
belief  that  Jesus  can  and  will  save  you,-Luke  vii :  50,  "  And  he  se:d  unto  the 
woman.  Thy  faith  hath  saved  thee ;  go  in  peace,"  and  Mark  x  :  52,  "  And  Jesus 


.,»•" 


r:-'Vf3'j;a^*?.''.-T  ■ 


■    •  I -r-.riM— ■i----^-^--^-'-^-" 


-.,.  Fill 


wm'^ 


'  '='^  •?"• , 


33 


fEKSDNAI.    C'HKISTIAN    WORK. 


said  unto  him,  (io  thy  way  ;  thy  faith  hath  made  thee  whole."  Now  what  was 
the  faith  that  that  woman  had  ?  She  did  not  know  much  theology,  but  »\  z 
believed  that  Jesus  could  and  would  forgive  her  sins.  In  Mark  x :  53,  what  was 
the  faith  of  Uartimeus  ?  He  believed  that  Jesus  could  and  would  restore  his 
sight ;  or  second,  it  is  simply  receiving  Christ,-"  But  as  many  as  reciived  him, 
to  them  gave  he  power  to  become  the  sons  cf  God,  even  to  them  that  believe 
on  his  name;  or  third,  committing  all  to  Christ,  II  Tim.  i:i2,  "  I  know 
whom  I  have  believed,  and  am  persuaded  that  h-;  is  able  to  keep  that  which  I 
have  committed  unto  him  against  that  day  ;  "  or  fourth,  it  is  simply  the  expect- 
ant looking  unto  Christ  for  salvation,— John  iii  .14,  "  And  as  Moses  lifted  up  the 
serpent  in  the  wilderness,  even  so  must  the  Son  of  man  be  lifted  up."  In  a  word, 
it  is  depending  solely  upon  Christ  to  save  from  the  guilt,  power  and  consequences 
of  sin. 

Eighth  ;  the  absolute  necessity  of  open  confession  of  Christ. 

Ninth;  Titus  ii:  11-14,  Titus  iii: 8 — the  necessity  that  they  which  have 
believed  be  careful  to  maintain  good  works.  While  we  insist,  on  the  one  hand, 
thai  men  are  saved  fy  simply  believing,  we  must  just  as  strenuously  insist,  on  the 
other  hand,  that  they  are  saved  /o  holy  living.  That  is  a  doctrine  that  very 
much  needs  emphasizing  to-day  in  our  mission  and  church  work.  Saved  men 
must  lead  separated  lives.  We  must  teach  separation  from  the  world— II  Cor. 
vi :  19,  18. 

Tenth — Now  I  want  you  to  listen  to  this,  because  it  is  probably  the  first 
point  on  which  I  differ  from  my  brethren — the  perpetual  validity  and  necessity  of 
the  sacraments,  baptism  and  the  Lord's  Supper. 

There  is  one  point  I  omitted.  It  was  right  after  that  point  I  made  about 
the  absolute  and  infallible  authority  of  the  Word  of  God,  and  it  is  this — it  is  not 
very  different  and  yet  it  is  different — the  importance  of  daily,  regular  study  of  the 
Word  of  God. 

Now,  the  last  point,  friends,  and  in  some  respects  the  most  important  point. 
The  final  doctrine,  which  is  essential,  is  the  absolute  necessity  of  the  baptism  of 
the  Holy  Ghost  as  a  preparation  for  service.  I  want  to  repeat  thai,  the  absolute 
necessity  of  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost  as  a  preparation  for  service.  Luke 
xxiv  :  49 — Christ  is  just  on  the  point  of  ascension.  He  has  given  the  great  com- 
mission. He  has  told  them  to  go  into  all  the  world  and  preach  the  Gospel  to 
every  creature.  Now,  what  does  He  say  ? — "  And,  behold,  I  send  the  promise 
of  my  Father  upon  you  ;  but  tarry  ye  in  the  city  of  Jerusalem  until  ye  be  endw<ed 
with  power  from  on  high  : "  Acts  i :  8,  "  But  ye  shall  receive  power,  after  that  the 
Holy  Ghost  is  come  upon  you  :  "  Oh,  I  wish  I  could  talk  as  emphatically  as  I 
would  like  to  talk !  but  I  cannot.  Perhaps  it  is  better.  Perhaps  the  Spirit  of 
God  will  speak  to  you  better  through  the  till  small  voice  than  through  the 
whirlwind  and  earthquake.  Look  at  these  eleven  disciples.  Had  they  had  any 
theological  education?  They  had.  They  had  been  to  the  best  theological 
school  that  ever  existed  on  earth.  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ  was  the  teacher.  They 
had  been  three  years  in  the  theological  school  of  Christ.  They  had  learned  the 
Gospel  from  His  own  lips.  They  had  been  eye  witnesses  of  His  miracles.  They 
had  seen  Him  hanging  on  the  cross.  They  had  seen  Him  laid  in  the  sepulcher. 
They  saw  Him  after  He  had  risen.    They  saw  Him  ascend  right  before  their 


IK 


Now  what  was 
theology,  but  si; 
k  X :  53.  what  was 
would  restore  his 
ly  as  received  him. 
them  that  believe 
1.  i :  12.  "I  know 
keep  that  which  I 
simply  the  expect- 
kloses  lifted  up  the 
J  up."  In  a  word, 
and  consequences 

It. 

they  which  have 
,  on  the  one  hand, 
jusly  insist,  on  the 
loctrine  that  very 
3rk.  Saved  men 
he  world— II  Cor. 

probably  the  first 
y  and  necessity  of 

int  I  made  about 
It  is  this— it  is  not 
gfular  study  of  the 

t  important  point, 
of  the  baptism  of 
thai,  the  absolute 
)r  service.  Luke 
;n  the  great  com- 
ich  the  Gospel  to 
send  the  promise 
ntil  ye  be  endoed 
rer,  after  that  the 
emphatically  as  I 
aps  the  Spirit  of 
han  through  the 
[ad  they  had  any 
best  theological 
>e  teacher.  They 
had  learned  the 
miracles.  They 
in  the  sepulcher. 
ight  before  their 


IN  SEASON.  S3 

eyes.  Now,  these  things  they  had  seen  were  Gospel  facts,  not  theories.  The 
Ciospel  they  had  to  preach  was  just  what  they  had  seen.  They  knew  it.  They 
had  seen  it.  Now  watch  these  men.  Though  they  had  nothing  to  do,  but  to 
testify  to  the  things  they  had  heard  with  their  own  ears  and  seen  with  their  own 
eyes,  they  were  not  allowed  to  stir  one  step,  until  they  were  endued  with  the 
Holy  Cihost,  and,  though  the  whole  world  was  perishing  for  the  knowledge  they 
had  received  through  personal  observation,  they  waited  day  after  day,  day  after 
day,  for  ten  long  days  till  the  Spirit  of  God  came  upon  them.  My  point  is  this, 
if  men,  who  had  been  to  school -to  Jesus  Christ,  who  had  been  with  Him  for  three 
long  years,  had  heard  the  truth  they  were  to  teach  from  His  own  lips,  h'ld  been 
eye  witnesses  of  His  miracles.  His  death.  His  resurrection  and  His  ascension,  if 
they  were  not  allowed  to  teach  and  preach,  until  they  knew  that  the  Spirit  of  Ciod 
had  come  upon  them,  what  presumption  it  is  in  us  to  do  it !  It  is  to  my  mind 
the  most  audacious  thing  a  man  can  do  to-day.  when  even  Jesus  Christ  Himself 
did  not  enter  upon  His  public  ministry  until  He  was  anointed  "  with  the  Holy 
Ghost  and  with  power  "  (Acts  x  :  38).  If  Jesus  did  not  do  it,  and.  if  the  Apostles, 
who  were  eye-witnesses — if  they  were  not  allowed  to  preach,  until  they  were 
conscious  of  the  anointing  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  what  awful  presumption,  blasphemy, 
I  had  almost  said,  to  try  to  take  the  place  of  leader  or  do  any  work  for  Christ  till 
we  know  we  have  received  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost ! 

Are  there  any  Christian  workers  here,  who,  if  they  were  to  express  their 
honest  thought  to-night,  would  have  to  say,  "  The  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
what  is  it  ?  "  Don't  you  know  my  brother  ?  Don't  you  know  my  sister  ? 
If  you  do  not — I  say  it  thoughtfully  ;  I  do  not  say  it  on  the  impulse  of  the  mo- 
ment ;  I  have  thought  over  for  houi-s  what  I  anj  going  to  say  to  you— don't, 
don't  undertake  to  do  anything  in  the  service  of  Christ,  until  you  hav«  gone  and 
in  (}od's  way  sought  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost  and  know  you  have  got  it. 
"  Ye  shall  receive  power  after  that  the  Holy  Ghost  is  rome  upon  you." — /tei'.  R. 
A.  Torrey,  pages  292-300. 

There  is  something,  Brother  Torrey,  I  think  on  account  of  your  voice  giving 
out  that  you  omitted,  in  connection  with  the  point  on  the  absolute  anthority  of 
the  inspired  Word,  and  that  is  the  necessity  of  preaching  the  Word  and  nothing 
but  the  Word. — Col.  George  R.  Clarke,  page  300. 

Amen.  There  is  another  point  which  I  omitted,  and  which  I  will  give  you 
now,  the  doctrine  of  an  endless  conscious  torment  of  those,  who  in  this  life  reject 
Jesus  Christ  as  Saviour.  I  will  give  you  the  texts  on  it :  John  viii :  21-24  ;  Rev. 
xx:  15;  Rev.  xxi:  8;  Rev.  xiv:9-ti.  The  thirteenth  chapter  of  Revelation, 
eighth  verse,  tells  you  about  those  whose  names  are  not  written  in  the  Lamb's 
Book  of  Life.  John  iii :  36,  "  He  that  believeth  on  the  Son  hath  everlasting  life  : 
and  he  that  bco~ .  .  .iOt  on  the  Son  shall  not  see  life :  but  the  wrath  of  God 
abideth  on  him. — Rev.  R.  A.  Torrey,  page  yao. 


IN  SEASON. 

Now,  can  anything  be  done  as  a  preventative  to  lessen  the  great  army  that 

is  drifting  down  this  swift  current  into  the  whirlpool  of  vice  and  sin  ?    Yes  ;  our 

own  hearts,  filled  with  mere  of  the  Master's  love,  will  constrain  us  to  give  a  kind 

word  of  warning  to  the  erring,  or  extend  a  hand  of  welcome  to  the  stranger  just 


-aim 


::n 


mi' 


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i 


34  I'KKSONAI.    CHKISTIAN     WORK. 

in  the  time,  when  it  might  turn  the  .ide  of  his  whole  life.  Hundreds  of  young 
men  have  N<iid  to  me,  "  I  \vn.s  always  in  the  habit  of  attending  church  on  Sunday, 
when  at  home,  but,  when  I  came  anumg  strangers,  I  went  here,  and  I  went 
there,  but  no  one  seemed  to  notice  me,  or  extend  a  hand  of  welcome,  and  I 
became  discouraged  and  gave  up  going  to  church.  Then  I  amused  myself  with 
the  Sunday  papers  and  visiting  the  I'arks,  then  the  theatres  and  billiard  halls, 
and  here  I  am.     The  journey  has  been  sh.)rt  to  this  (prison)  place." 

Oh,  that  a  word  of  warning  might  go  forth  to  parents  of  the  importance  of 
impressing  upon  the  minds  of  their  children,  not  simply  the  habit  of  attending 
church,  but  the  importance  of  seeking  first  the  kingdom  of  dod,  liefore  leaving 
the  |)arental  roof !  If  the  interest  of  the  soul  could  lie  placed  before  them  as 
being  of  so  much  more  inijiortance  than  business  qualifications,  (hat  everything 
pertaining  to  their  success  in  life  was  of  little  importance  compared  with  the 
interests  of  the  soul  ;  if  they  could  go  forth  shielded  by  the  grace  of  Ciod  to  meet 
the  tempter's  power,  how  much.  <)  how  much  of  sorrow  and  suffering  could  be 
prevented !  and  how  many,  now  filling  ^  felon's  cell,  might  go  forth  as  bright 
and  shining  lights  and  a  blessing  to  the  world  \~Afrs.  George  K.  Llatke,  /ifvv 
31 2. 


NOT  (IRKAT  socif:Tii:s. 

I  st(MMl  last  Summer  in  the  twilight  of  a  beautiful  Sabbath  day  with  the 
police  matron  on  Canal  Street  in  Buffalo.  You  have  heard  of  Canal  Street ;  you 
know  what  Canal  Street  is.  In  all  my  experience  in  Christian  work  I  had  never 
seen  such  a  street  before.  As  we  were  walking  along  to  the  mission  a  girl  on 
the  other  side  of  the  road  caught  sight  of  us.  Mrs.  Meldrum  saw  her  and  called 
to  her.  "  Why,  there's  Joe.  How  are  you  Joe  .'  "  The  woman  came  staggering 
across  the  street,  not  sober  enough  to  call  the  matron  by  her  right  name  although 
she  knew  her  perfectly.  They  shook  hands  cordially,  and,  Mrs.  Meldrum  said, 
"  You  have  been  drinking  Joe."  She  answered,  "  No,  nothing  to  hurt,  ma'am  : 
nothing  to  hurt.  I  am  not  coming  to  see  you  at  No.  i."  Then  as  we  moved 
on  toward  the  mission,  the  matron  turned  and  said,  "  Joe,  we  are  going  to  the 
mission,  won't  you  come  ?  "  She  stepped  back,  looked  down  at  herself  and 
looked  at  us,  "  mk  !  "  she  said.  W'e  went  that  night,  when  the  service  was  over, 
into  the  station-house  cell,  where  there  sat  a  nineteen  year  old  girl  drawn  that 
day  from  the  canal  where  the  policeman  said  she  had  thrown  herself. 

Oh,  the  pictures  of  that  night !  The  one  girl  standing  out  in  the  blessed 
light  of  the  Summer  twilight,  the  other  in  the  gloom  of  the  station-house  cell. 
They  have  burned  down  into  my  soul,  and  my  heart  goes  out  with  a  cry  for  these 
women,  for  the  women  that  are  down,  for  the  women  that  are  lost.  Oh,  my 
sisu r.j,  it  is  you  and  I  who  must  reach  them !    [Applause.] 

It  was  said  on  the  platform  yesterday  that  this  is  a  day  of  great  institutions 

and  work  done  by  great  organizations  and  missions.    It  is  not !    It  is  not !    It  is 

you  and  I  who  have  got  the  work  to  do.    [Applause.]    The  great  organizations 

can  never  do  it.     It  is  on  the  individual  soul  that  respr-«sibility  rests  everywhere. 

[Applause,]     As  we  listen  to  these  stories  of  mission  work  near  and  far,  don't 

you  see  how  it  is  the  individual,  faithful  worker  that  God  is  blessing  and  using, 

not  great  societies,  not  marvelous  abilities,  but  obedient,   personal  Taith. Miss 

C,  E.  Coffin,  page  315. 


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lurch  on  Sunday, 
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welcome,  and  I 
used  myself  with 
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w  her  and  called 
came  staggering 
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.  Meldrum  said, 
to  hurt,  ma'am  ; 
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girl  drawn  that 
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freat  institutions 
It  is  not !  It  is 
at  organizations 
:sts  everywhere, 
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ising  and  using, 
lal  faith.— J/Zw 


.      POI.ICK   HIATION    V/ORK.  If 

POLICK  STAIION  WORK.  '. 

As  we  go  into  a  police  station  in  the  morning  the  first  thing  we  have  been 
led  to  do  iH  to  shake  hands— to  give  a  good,  hearty  hand-ihake.  And  every  time 
the  hand  is  shaken,  there  are  tears  in  the  eyes  of  almost  every  one  of  those  dear 
fellows.  Oh,  how  much  a  hand-shake  docs  !  They  are  surprised  sometimes  ; 
do  not  know  what  it  means.     We  then  ask  them  to  go  upstairs  to  a  little  service. 

After  this  service  we  meet  those  who  are  specially  interested  in  the  little  cells 
which  we  use  for  inquiry  hmwis.  How  sweet  those  places  are  to  me  I  Now  who 
comes  into  those  platrs  }  They  are  nien  and  boys,  and  some  of  them  are  very 
far  down  in  sin,  but  Oh.  how  tender  their  hearts  are  !  Dear  friends,  there  is  one 
thing  we  need  right  hert,  and  that  is  to  know  how  to  put  our  arms  about  these 
dear  ones.  Hut  they  arc  dirty  and  filthy  and  covered  with  marks  of  dissipation, 
you  say.  I'ut  the  arms  of  love  around  them  as  parents  would  their  sons.  There 
was  one  colored  man,  who  looked  very  rough  and  coarse  and  who  was  going  to 
strike  me  at  first.  Then  I  saw  a  tt.ir  in  .lis  eye.  and  at  the  close  I  said,  "  I  want 
to  talk  with  you."  He  said,  "  I  do  not  want  to  talk  with  you."  1  said,  "  But  I 
want  to  talk  with  you.  I  am  not  afraid  of  you,  and  I  want  to  have  a  little  talk 
with  you."  He  gave  in,  and  I  put  my  arm  around  him.  He  burst  into  tears,  and 
it  was  not  long  before  we  knelt  down  on  our  knees,  and  he  told  Jesus  Christ  all 
his  sins.  I  never  heard  of  such  sins,  so  many  and  so  deep  and  dark  as  that  man 
told.  When  he  rose  from  his  knees  he  said,  "  I  am  gomg  to  the  work-house  and 
penitentiary.  That  is  where  I  belong.  I  came  in  here  intending  to  plead  not 
guilty,  but  now  I  will  plead  guilty,  1  am  going  there,  but  I  will  not  forget  any 
advice  I  have  heard  from  you."  He  has  gone  there,  and  I  have  heard  from  him, 
and  he  is  living  for  Christ.— Z^.  L.  Davis,  page  }fyj. 


SPECIAL  GIFTS  AND  LINES  OF  WORK. 
Some  have  more  gifts  in  certain  lines  than  others,  some  in  one  direction  and 
some  in  another.  We  have  one  man  there,  a  converted  Jew,  whose  great  gift  is 
to  go  on  the  street  and  speak  to  men.  He  speaks  to  almost  every  man  he  meets, 
and  says  a  word  that  often  brings  them  to  Christ.  I  was  walking  down  a  street 
one  day,  and  he  did  not  see  who  I  was,  and  he  stepped  up  to  ask  me  if  I 
was  saved.  Another  man's  gift  is  to  go  out  and  do  street  work.  That  is  a  line 
of  work  I  did  not  speak  of,  street  work.  You  do  not  need  a  mission.  You  du 
not  need  a  church.  You  do  not  need  even  a  block  to  stand  on.  You  can  gO 
out  and  stand  on  the  street  and  watch  the  people,  who  go  by,  and  pray,  as  they 
go  by,  and  ask  the  Lord  to  show  you  the  right  one,  and,  when  He  shows  you 
the  right  one,  step  up  to  him  and  lead  him  to  Christ.  I  believe  if  some  of  us 
would  just  shut  up  our  missions  and  s^xnd  the  same  amount  of  time  on  the  street 
comer,  praying  for  guidance  as  the  people  go  by,  and,  when  the  Lord  leads  us, 
step  up  to  a  person  and  try  to  lead  them  to  Christ,  we  should  lead  many  to 
Christ.  You  do  not  need  a  mission  to  do  mission  work.  You  can  do  it  right  on 
the  street.  Another  young  man  has  the  gift  of  collaring  sOme  one  and  talking 
with  him  as  they  go  along.  This  young  tlian,  by  the  way,  is  a  convert  of  Col. 
Hadley's  mission.  He  had  a  meeting  all  the  way  from  New  York  to  Chicago 
when  he  came  there,  and  the  conductor  on  the  train  was  converted  andoqc  or 
two  other  men,  who  have  been  corresponding  with  him  since.    .[Applause.] 


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PERSONAL  CHRISTIAN   WORK. 

There  is  one  line  of  work  that  1  forgot  to  mention  and  that  is  our  cottage 
meetings,  of  which  we  maice  a  great  deal.  As  these  ladies  go  from  house  to 
house— the  ladies  do  most  of  the  visiting— they  are  instructed  to  find  a  place, 
where  we  can  have  a  cottage  meeting.  At  one  of  the  cottage  meetings  we  had 
fifty  persons  present.  We  had  eight  saloon  keepers  in  one  of  the  cottage  meet- 
ings. That  is  accounted  for  partly  by  the  fact  that  we  have  a  young  man,  who 
sold  out  a  good  business  in  Brooklyn  and  came  to  our  school,  and  who  has  a 
great  gift  in  getting  people  into  cottage  meetings.  He  will  come  in  with  two 
people,  and  pretty  soon  he  will  come  in  with  two  more  and  in  a  little  while  with 
five,  perhaps.  I  think  he  got  in  the  eight  saloon  keepers.  He  has  the  gift  of 
getting  into  the  saloons.  That  is  another  branch  of  our  work.  One  of  the  men 
has  a  little  organ,  and  he  steps  into  a  saloon  and  plays  for  the  men  and  says, 
"  Have  you  any  objection  to  my  singing  a  song  ?  "  The  men  usually  want  him 
to  sing,  and  he  always  sings  the  Gospel  songs,  and.  when  he  gets  through  sing- 
ing, he  preaches  ihe  Gospel  in  the  saloon.  We  have  a  number,  who  do  this 
kind  of  work.  I  want  to  say  that  in  almost  every  instance  they  have  been  very 
kindly  received  by  the  bar-keepers.  One  bar-keeper  stood  and  talked  with  one 
of  our  workers  an  hour  about  his  personal  salvation.  In  one  saloon  there  were 
only  three  persons,  the  Mioon  keeper,  his  wife  and  a  policeman.  All  three  of 
them  were  deeply  interested,  and,  when  he  was  through,  the  policeman  stood  and 
talked  for  an  hour  or  more  about  his  salvation.  —^^.  /f,  A.  Torrey,  pages  376, 
377- 


A  DISCUSSION. 

Ques.    How  is  a  man  to  succeed  in  the  Christian  life  ? 

Rev.  R.  A.  Torrey.  I  can  give  you  six  rules  by  which  he  can  succeed.  First, 
start  right  by  receiving  Christ,  Jno.  i :  12  ;  second,  confess  Christ  every  charce  he 
gets.  Matt.  X  :  32,  33 ;  third,  read  his  Bible  every  day,  I  Peter  ii :  i,  2  ;  fourth,  be 
much  in  prayer,  Luke  xxii :  40— pray  regularly  and  pray  every  time  he  is  tempted 
—fifth,  put  iway  every  known  sin  out  of  his  life,  Isa.  Iv  :  7,  I  Jno.  i :  7  ;  sixth,  go 
to  work.  Matt,  xxv :  14-29.  You  have  got  to  keep  them  at  work  to  keep  them 
sxfe,  I  wont  say  saved,  because  I  believe  if  a  man  is  once  saved,  he  is  saved 
foievT. 

Ques,  Mr.  Torrey,  I  would  like  to  ask  a  question.  It  has  become  very 
fashionable  in  mission  meetings,  after  the  address  is  over,  to  simply  ask  those 
who  want  to  be  prayed  for  to  stand  up.  Now  is  not  the  object  of  our  preaching 
the  bringing  of  men  to  trust  in  Christ  ? 

Mr.  Torrey.    Yes  sir.  ^-'a  :^-cMfr  ■.    :-  - 

Ques.  And  if  I  simply  ask  men  to  stand  up  and  be  prayed  for,  I  fall  short 
of  the  object  I  ought  to  have  in  view  ? 

Mr.  Torrey.    Yes  sir. 

H.  J.  Pierson.  Mr.  Spurgeon  once  said  a  lady  came  to  hiin  and  said  she 
had  been  setJcing  the  Lord  for  some  time,  and  she  said,  "  I  want  you  to  pray  for 
me."  He  said,  "  Madam,  I  will  not."  And  then  he  pointed  her  to  Christ,  and 
presently  she  said,  "Mr.  Spurgeon.  I  will  accept  Christ."  "  Now,"  he  said.  "  I 
will  pray  with  you." 

Mr.  Torrey.    I  am  glad  Mi.  Pierson  brought  that  out.    I  tell  you,  friends. 


1, 

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A   DISCUSSION. 


kt  is  our  cottage 
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to  find  a  place, 
leetings  we  had 
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oung  man,  who 

and  who  has  a 
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little  while  with 

has  the  gift  of 
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men  and  says, 
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s  through  sing- 
er, who  do  this 
have  been  very 
talked  with  one 
loon  there  were 
1.  All  three  of 
;man  stood  and 
rey,  pages  376, 


succeed.  First, 
:very  charce  he 
,  2  ;  fourth,  be 
5  he  is  tempted 
i :  7  ;  sixth,  go 
to  keep  them 
;d,  he  is  saved 

s  become  very 
mply  ask  those 
our  preaching 


for,  I  fall  short 


n  and  said  she 
ou  to  pray  for 
to  Christ,  and 
ir,"  he  said,  "  I 

U  you,  friends. 


37 


we  want  to  leave  upon  ..^e  minds  of  the  persons  we  are  talking  with  the  fact  that 
they  are  lost,  if  they  stop  short  of  accepting  Christ.  You  do  not  want  to  ease  a 
man's  conscience.    Standing  up  for  prayer  eases  a  man's  conscience. 

Ques.    Do  you  instruct  your  workers  to  expect  immediate  conversions? 

Mr.  Torrey.  Yes,  but  I  will  say,  too,  that  oftentimes  the  most  satisfactory  con- 
verts are  those  you  have  dealt  with  night  after  night.  I  instruct  my  workers,  if 
they  get  hold  of  a  man  to-night,  and  do  not  succeed  in  bringing  him  to  Christ, 
instead  of  taking  a  new  man,  to  keep  at  that  one  until  he  is  saved. 

Rev.  Floyd  W.  Tomkins,  Jr.  You  speak  of  a  person  being  hopefully  con- 
verted, but  I  am  afraid  a  great  many  people  here  to-night,  perhaps  some,  who 
are  not  converted,  do  not  know  what  it  means.  Will  you  kindly  tell  us  in  a 
word  what  it  means .' 

Mr.  Torrey.  A  converted  man  or  a  regenerated  man  is  one,  who  has  seen 
himself  as  a  lost  sinner  and  who  has  taken  Christ  as  an  all  sufficient  Saviour  and 
confesses  Him  openly  before  the  world.  "  With  the  heart  man  believeth  unto 
righteousness  ;  and  with  the  mouth  confession  is  made  unto  salvation."  "  Why 
do  you  believe  you  are  saved  ?  "  I  ask  one  who  says  he  is  saved.  "  W  ell,  I  feel 
so."  "  Can  you  prove  it  to  me  from  the  Word  of  God  ?  Show  me  something 
in  the  Word  of  God  that  you  can  put  your  finger  on."  "  I  know,"  he  says, 
"  from  that  passage  that  I  am  a  saved  man."  The  only  assurance  that 
amounts  to  anything  is  the  assurance  that  has  its  foundation  on  God's  Word. 
On  top  of  that  is  the  witness  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 

Ques.  What  if  he  lacks  the  assurance  of  the  Word,  but  believes  he  is 
saved  ? 

Mr.  Torrey.  If  a  man  says  he  is  converted,  he  must  give  evidence  from  the 
Scriptures  to  that  effect,  before  he  is  a  satisfactory  case. 

Ques.     Do  you  keep  him  at  it  till  he  finds  it  ? 

Mr.  Torrey.  I  would  show  it  to  him.  For  example,  "  Everyone  that  believeth 
is  justified  from  all  things."  Now  1  explain  that,  what  "  believing  "  is,  and  I  put 
it  to  him  cleariy.  "  Do  you  believe  on  Christ  ?  Have  you  received  Christ }  " 
"  Yes."  "  Well  then,  what  are  you  ?  "  "  Why,  I  don't  knov/.  I  hope  to  be 
saved."  "  '  Every  one  that  be  ievcth  is  justified,'  do  you  believe .'"  "  Yes."  "  What 
is  the  person  that  believes  ?'  "  Justified."  "  What  are  you  ?  "  "  Well,  I  hope  to 
be  saved  sometime."  "  He  '  ';hat  believeth  is  justified  from  all  things,'  "  I  repeat. 
"  Do  you  believe  ?  What  are  you  }  "  '•  Justified  from  all  things,"  he  says  finally. 
We  keep  at  it  till  it  comes  out  with  the  right  ring.  I  use  that  text  (Acts  xiii :  39) 
a  great  deal.     I  also  use  John  iii :  36. 

Rev  C.  S.  Mills.  Mr.  Chairman,  all  of  us,  who  are  in  Christian  work,  seek- 
ing to  lead  men  to  Christ,  find  often  a  great  perplexity  in  the  relation  between 
the  decision  of  the  soul  and  the  agency  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  I  would  like  to  have 
you  explain  a  little  more  fully. 

Mr.  Torrey.  I  am  very  glad  you  have  asked  that  question,  because  a  great 
many  people  try  to  do  the  work  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  and  I  emphasize  that  a  great 
deal.  It  is  the  work  of  the  Holy  Spirit  to  regenerate,  and  all  a  man  has  to  do 
with  his  regeneration  is  this.  The  Spirit  of  God  comes  to  the  man  to  whom 
the  Gospel  is  preached  and  presents  C.rist  to  him.  If  a  man  yields  to  the  Spirit 
of  God  and  accepts  Christ,  he  is  regenerated.    All  a  man  has  to  do  with  his  re- 


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mim*imimimi>i>Mvi*i»»^^- 


— ..s^", 


3* 


PERSONAL    CHRISTIAN   WORK, 


generation  is  to  let  the  Spirit  of  God  work.  Now,  through  what  does  the  Spirit 
of  God  work  ?  Through  the  Word,  James  i :  i8,-"Of  his  own  will  he  brought 
us  forth  by  the  word  of  truth,  that  we  should  be  a  kind  of  first  fruits  of  his  crea- 
tures." Our  part  in  regeneration  is  to  give  the  Word  in  the  power  of  the  Spirit, 
and  the  Holy  Spirit's  part  is  to  invigorate  the  Word,  give  it  life,  and  the  man's 
part  is  to  yield ;  that  is  all. 

Ques.  I  would  like  to  ask  if  you  believe  a  Christian  worker  can  accomplish 
anything,  unless  Christ  is  incarnated  in  him  ? 

Mr.  Torrey.  He  is  not  a  Christian  worker,  but  God  does  sometimes  use  un- 
converted instrumentalities.  '  have  known  of  God  wonderfully  using  men,  who 
had  not  been  converted  and  were  living  in  sin,  as  came  out  afterwards.  The 
first  thing  we  insist  upon  is  the  personal  religious  life  of  our  students  (Bible  In- 
stitute, Chicago).  I  want  to  say  right  here,  suggested  by  this,  we  found,  about 
two  weeks  ago,  that  we  were  not  getting  converts  as  we  used  to,  and  so  I  said, 
"  We  will  stop  all  our  lectures  and  get  down  before  God  and  pray."  We  gave 
up  our  lectures  for  the  day  and  met  in  prayer.  That  night  the  students,  of  their 
own  accord,  came  together  and  lingered  till  past  midnight  in  prayer  for  the 
Spirit  of  God  to  come  down  upon  us,  and  from  that  day  to  this,  on  the  street,  in 
the  saloons  and  everywhere  we  have  gone  in  the  pow:  r  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  Wf^ 
insist  on  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Spirit  more  than  .anything  else  next  to  their 
own  personal  life. 

Ques.    How  do  you  define  to  your  students  the  enduement  of  power  ? 

Mr.  Torrey.  I  wish  I  had  time  to  lecture  on  that  an  hour.  The  baptism  of 
the  Holy  Ghost  is  the  Spirit  of  God  coming  upon  a  man  and  taking  possession 
of  his  faculties  and  imparting  to  him  gifts,  not  naturally  his  own,  but  which  fit 
him  for  the  work  to  which  God  has  called  him.  How  secured  ?  Isa.  xliv  :  3 
Acts  ii :  38-39,  Acts  v  :  ji.  Gal.  iii :  14,  Luke  xi :  13,  Luke  xxiv  :  49. 

Que^.     Does  the  question  of  repentance  come  up  in  your  mission  meetings  ? 

Mr.  Torrey.  Yes,  it  does.  It  comes  up  in  the  meeting  and  in  talking  with 
men.  I  teach  them  just  exactly  what  repentance  is.  Repentance  is  turning 
from  sin  with  all  your  heart  and  turning  to  God.  We  dwell  on  the  positive 
necessity  of  turning  to  God  and  depending  on  Christ. 

A  delegate.  You  said  last  night,  that  a  man  must  not  only  have  the  bap- 
tism of  the  Holy  Spirit,  but  must  know  that  he  has  it.  Christ  said,  "  Tarry  ye  in 
the  city  of  Jerusalem,  until  ye  be  endued  with  the  power  from  on  Ijigh."  You 
said,  that,  if  it  was  presumption  for  the  Disciples  to  go  out  wiih.;M  '\i\  power, 
it  would  be  more  presumptious  for  us  to  go  out  without  it  o  m  ',-'  m  Christ. 
How  can  we  know  that  we  have  this  power  ? 

Mr.  Torrey.  I  do  not  know  as  I  can  do  better  than  to  give  my  own 
experience.  I  came  to  a  place  in  my  ministry  where  I  was  led  to  say — i  said  it 
to  one  person,  but  mostly  to  myself — that  I  would  never  go  into  my  pulpit  to 
preach  till  I  knew  I  had  been  baptized  with  the  Holy  Spirit,  or  till  God  said, 
"  Go."  I  gave  myself  up  to  prayer  and  waited  on  God,  having  first  looked 
into  my  life  to  see  if  there  was  anything  not  pleasing  to  God  (in  the  line  of  what 
the  pastor  of  this  church  said  in  his  opening  address).  All  my  time  was  spent  in 
looking  to  God  m  prayer.  I  do  not  know  how  many  days  it  was,  but  I  did  not 
pass  a  Sunday  in  the  meantime.     I  did  not  preach  as  many  times  a  week  as  I  do 


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39 


it  does  the  Spirit 
will  he  brought 
Fruits  of  his  crea- 
ver  of  the  Spirit, 
e,  and  the  man's 

r  can  accomplish 

>metimes  use  un- 
using  men.  who 
ifterwards.  The 
idents  (Bible  In- 
we  found,  about 
o,  and  so  I  said, 
»ray."  We  gave 
students,  of  their 
1  prayer  for  the 
on  the  street,  in 
loly  Ghost.  W'^ 
:lse  next  to  their 

of  power  ? 
,  The  baptism  of 
aking  possession 
vn,  but  which  fit 
d  ?     Isa.  xliv  :  3 

49- 

ission  meetings  ? 
i  in  talking  with 
:ance  is  turning 

on  the  positive 

ly  have  the  bap- 
lid,  "  Tarry  ye  in 
on  big-h."    You 


hi)'.:£ 
wo;-' 


lii'j  power, 
(or  Christ. 


>  give  my  own 
to  say — i  said  it 
ito  my  pulpit  to 
or  till  God  said, 
ing  first  looked 
the  line  of  what 
me  was  spent  in 
as,  but  I  did  not 
s  a  week  as  I  do 


now.  I  was  pastor  of  a  church  in  Minneapolis.  I  had  it  all  figured  out  how  it 
was  coming.  I  had  the  electric  shocks  and  all  those  things  figured  out.  At  last, 
in  a  very  unexpected  way,  quietly,  but  very  unmistakably,  the  assurance  crept 
into  my  soul,  "  It  is  yours,  go."  I  went,  and  God  blessed  me.  I  would  say 
that  since  that  time  I  have  felt  the  "  electric  shocks."  I  have  known  what  it 
was  to  have  the  Spirit  of  God  come  upon  me  since  that  time,  and  I  could  do 
nothing  but  lie  on  the  floor  and  shout,  "  Glory  to  (iod."  But  the  baptism  of  the 
Spirit  was  just  as  real  in  the  more  quiet  experience.  It  is  impossible  to  tell  just 
how  the  blessing  will  come.  Not,  probably,  in  the  way  you  expect.  But  you 
will  know  it  when  it  comes. 

Ques.  Was  it  knowledge  through  feeling  or  through  faith  in  the  Word  of 
God.> 

Mr.  Torrey.  I  think  the  best  promise  to  get  hold  of  in  the  matter  is  I  John 
v  :  14-15 — "If  we  ask  anything  according  to  his  will,  he  heareth  us  :  and  if  we 
know  that  he  heareth  us  whatsoever  we  ask,  we  know  that  we  have  the  petitions 
which  we  have  asked  of  him."  We  know  that  the  gift  of  the  Holy  Spirit  is 
"according  to  his  will."  Luke  xi :  13,  tells  us  that.  We  can  know  then  that 
"  we  have  the  petitions  which  we  have  asked  of  him."  The  assurance  has  often 
come  to  me  along  the  line  of  this  promise.  The  Spirit  has  made  this  promise 
real  in  my  experience.  I  would  be  glad  to  talk  about  this  all  night,  but  the 
time  is  up,  and  it  would  not  be  fair  to  keep  you  any  longer. — Pages  378-382. 


,J  FROM  THE   QUESTION  BOX. 

Ques.  What  books  will  help  in  leading  children  to  Christ }  Mr.  Ham- 
mond please  answer.  Ans.  (Rev.  E.  P.  Hammond).  Years  ago  I  read  with 
great  profit  Dr.  John  Todd's  works  on  the  conversion  of  children.  I  understand 
that  question  to  mean,  what  books  will  help  Christians  in  leading  children  to 
Christ  ?  I  did  not  suppose  I  would  be  asked  to  answer  this  question,  but  my 
answer  would  be  a  book  called  the  "Conversion  of  Children"  It  has  been 
translated  into  many  languages  and  has  gone  all  over  the  world.  I  know  that 
God  has  blessed  that  little  book.  I  hope  you  will  excuse  me  for  speaking  of  it, 
for  I  wrote  it.  I  have  given  away  several  thousands  of  copies,  and,  if  there  are 
any  here  to-day,  who  cannot  buy  the  book,  I  .shall  be  happy  to  give  it  to  them. 
There  are  many  other  books,  but  the  book  of  all  is  the  Bible. 

Chairman.  The  book  that  has  helped  me  more  than  any  other  ejcept  the 
Bible  is  Mr.  Hammond's  book. 

Ques.  How  can  the  church  be  organized  for  personal  work  .'  Ans.  (ReV. 
Graham  Taylor).  It  has  got  to  grow.  It  cannot  be  organized  on  paper.  You 
have  got  to  see  a  need,  and  get  one  person  and  then  another  person,  and  let  the 
need  grow.  The  moment  you  begin  and  make  your  organization  an  iron-mould 
for  life  to  go  into,  you  have  done  the  very  thing  you  did  not  want  to  do.  Life 
must  create  its  own  organization.  Now  give  it  free  scope  and  do  not  say,  "  You 
have  always  got  to  work  in  the  same  way."  It  is  necessary  to  keep  the  nfeed 
at  the  end  and  the  means  mid-way.  • 

Ques.  How  can  one  best  get  ?  love  for  soul-saving  ?  Col.  Clarke  please 
answer.    Ans.  (Col.  Clarke),    At  the  foot  of  the  cross.     [Applause.]  • 

Ques.      Does  Mr.   Torrey  think  a  conscious  descent  of  the  Holy  Spirit 


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PERSONAL    CHRISTIAN   WORK. 


necessary  for  workers  ?  Does  He  not  prove  His  presence  sometimes  without 
such  manifest  coming  ?  Ans.  (Mr.  Torrey).  I  am  not  sure  that  I  know  what 
is  meant  by  a  conscious  descent  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  but  I  will  reiterate  what  I 
said  last  night.  I  believe  that  a  man  should  know  that  he  has  the  baptism  of 
the  Holy  Spirit,  before  he  dares  to  underuke  Christian  work.  Now  the  next 
question  will  follow  right  on  this  one. 

Ques.  Mr.  Torrey  said  a  worker  must  wait  till  filled  with  the  Holy  Spirit 
How  does  he  know  he  is  filled  ready  to  sUrt  work  ?  Ans.  (Mr.  Torrey).  I 
cannot  tell  you  how  you  will  know,  but  1  can  tell  you  that^ow  will  know,  and 
the  probability  is  you  will  have  the  piocess  all  staked  out  for  yourselves,  and  the 
overwhelming  probability  is  that  it  wont  come  that  way  at  all,  but  as  you  wait 
before  the  Lord,  first  having  done  what  Mr.  Kittredge  Wheeler  said  must  be 
done,  first  t>eing  in  the  moral  attitude  to  receive  the  Holy  Spirit,  being  ready, 
anxious  and  willing  that  the  Holy  Spirit  should  use  you  anywhere.  We  are  not 
willing  that  the  Holy  Spirit  should  do  what  He  will  with  us.  When  you  are  in 
that  attitude,  and  waiting  on  God,  the  Spirit  of  God  will  come  ar>d  make  His 
presence  known.  I  cannoc  tell  you  how  He  will  make  it  known.  Very  likely 
there  will  be  no  physical  manifestation,  but  you  will  know  when  the  Spirit  is 
there. 

Ques.  Before  one  can  have  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  power  from 
on  high,  is  there  a  self-emptying,  w.iich  is  the  person's  own  work,  or  will  God, 
by  His  baptism,  push  out  self,  if  that  is  the  man's  true  desire  ?  Col.  Clarke, 
answer  that  iquestion.  Ans.  (Col.  Clarke).  I  tell  you,  you  never  will  be  empty 
of  self-will  till  you  ask  God  to  empty  you.  I  know  that  from  personal  experi- 
ence. God  has  got  to  lay  down  your  will  for  you.  You  have  got  to  ask  Him  to 
empty  you  of  yourself,  self-will,  conceit,  and  everything  else.  Then  ihe  Holy 
Spirit  is  just  pressing  to  come  in  and  will  come  in.  God  has  got  to  do  the 
emptying,  but  the  emptying  is  net  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  The  filling 
after  the  emptying  is  the  baptism. 

Ques.  Will  you  Christian  workers  please  tell  me  how  to  be  more  interested 
in  reading  the  Bible,  and  how  to  understand  it  better  }  Please  pray  for  us,  tliat 
we  may  love  to  read  and  understand  it  as  you  all  seem  to.  Ans.  (Mr.  Torrey). 
Yes.  I  do  not  make  this  as  a  personal  allusion.  It  may  not  apply  to  the  case. 
The  first  thing  I  would  say,  would  be  this,  be  born  again.  The  firs',  thing  a 
Kve  baby  does  is  to  cry  for  milk.  The  first  thing  a  new  born  soul  wants  vj  some- 
thing to  eat,  and  there  is  just  one  thing  that  satisfies  it,  and  that  is  che  Word 
of  God.  Be  sure  you  are  born  again.  The  hunger  for  God's  Word  is  one  of 
the  proofs.  Then  study  it.  Mind  what  I  say  ;  I  do  not  say  read  it.  I  mean, 
get  right  down  and  pray  over  it  and  take  a  single  verse  and  turn  it  over  and  over 
again,  and  you  will  learn  to  love  it.  It  is  our  superficial  reading  that  makes  our 
reading  so  stupid  and  dull.  It  is  when  we  meditate  on  the  Word  that  we  enjoy 
k.  The  more  you  read,  the  more  you  will  love  it.  I  used  to  love  my  Bible  when 
I  was  first  converted.  I  do  not  know  as  1  ever  enjoyed  reading  my  Bible  so 
much  as  I  did  last  night,  when  I  went  home  from  the  meeting  here. 

Ques.  What  simple  and  feasible  plan  for  enlisting  in  Christian  work  the 
members  of  a  country  church  living  in  dis4ricts.>  Ans.  You  will  find  the 
answer  in  the  repoi .  of  Rev.  H.  L.  Hutchins. 


MY   FOOLISH   MAN. 


les  without 
know  what 
rate  what  I 
baptism  of 
w  the  next 

rloly  Spirit 
rorrey).  I 
'  know,  and 
res,  and  the 
IS  you  wait 
tid  must  be 
leing  ready. 
We  are  not 
I  you  are  in 
3  make  His 
Very  likely 
he  Spirit  is 

power  from 
>r  will  God, 
Zol.  Clarke, 
ill  be  empty 
)nal  experi- 
ask  Him  to 
E.n  the  Holy 
to  do  the 
The  filling 

•e  interested 
for  us,  tliat 
\x.  Torrey). 
to  the  case, 
firs^  thing  a 
nts  i«j  some- 
is  the  Word 
rd  is  one  of 
it.  I  mean, 
•er  and  over 
t  makes  our 
at  we  enjoy 
Bible  when 
ny  Bible  so 

in  work  the 
ill  find  the 


Ques.  How  can  we  save  the  young  men  of  the  country,  and  get  them  into 
the  Christian  Endeavor  Society  ?  Ans.  (E.  B.  Dillingham).  That  was  answered 
in  Dr.  Gordon's  address  the  other  evening.  The  same  way  you  do  every  one 
else.    Go  for  them. 

Ques.  How  shall  we  work  in  the  country  churches  to  reach  the  outsiders  ? 
Ans.  (Mr.  Torrey).  I  think  the  same  answer  is  good  for  that.  [Laughter.]  Go 
for  them  with  wagons.  Have  cottage  meetings  in  the  school-houses,  and  In  the 
homes.  Organize  them  for  personal  work.  If  you  organize,  do  somethinjr  A 
great  many  organize,  but  never  do  anything.  I  would  rather  have  an  unorgan- 
ized man,  who  is  doing  something,  than  an  organized  man,  who  is  not  doing 
anything. 

(2ues.  How  shall  we  get  those,  who  are  converted  in  the  missions  to  be- 
come connected  with  the  churches  ?  Ans.  (Mrs.  H.  J.  Pierson).  I  think  the 
best  way  is  for  Christians  to  go  where  the  missions  are  and  prove  to  those  who 
are  converted  that  they  love  them,  and  they  will  follow  you  anywhere  you  be- 
long.—/'<i^«  39c,  397,  400,  401. 


"MY  FOOLISH  MAN." 
I  want  to  say  a  word  in  this  place  about  that  class,  which  so  many  call  fool- 
ish. I  want  to  tell  about  one  whom  I  found,  and  when  you  find  a  real  dis- 
couraging place,  remember  my  foolish  old  man.  I  went  to  hold  my  service  (in 
the  almshouse)  and  they  had  shut  him  up  in  a  barn.  They  said  he  could  not  come 
in.  I  said,  "  Why  not  ?  "  He  was  howling,  because  he  knew  something  was 
going  on.  They  said  he  could  not  come  in,  for  he  .  ver  had  been  in  a  meeting 
in  his  life.  "  Like  as  not  he  would  talk  right  out  loud."  1  said,  "  \  have  been 
in  meetings  many  times  where  they  tried  to  get  people  to  say  something  but  they 
would  not.  [Laughter.)  Let  him  come  in  and  hear  something."  They  brought 
him  in  and  sat  him  beside  me.  The  man  looked  at  me  and  said,  "  She  don't 
look  as  though  she'd  hurt  much."  I  said,  "  No,  I  would  not  hurt  you."  I  began 
to  tell  the  wonderful  story  we  never  tire  of  telling.  While  I  was  waiting  for  him 
to  be  brought  in  they  told  me  that  they  often  had  to  bind  him,  because  he  got 
into  such  terrible  fits  of  passion.  I  found  that  he  was  born  in  the  almshouse, 
and  that  no  holy  influence  had  ever  touched  his  life.  When  I  told  that  story,  I 
told  it  with  one  great  longing  in  my  soul  that  I  might  tell  it  so  simply  that  this 
poor  man  might  take  it  in.  As  I  told  it  they  said  that  I  stood  with  my  hands 
on  John's  shoulder,  but  I  did  not  know  it.  After  the  .'f^rvice  was  over  I  said  to 
him,  "  Do  you  know  what  I  have  been  saying  ?  Do  you  believe  it  ?  "  "I  spose 
I  must."  "  Yes,  you  must."  I  got  him  down  on  his  'cnees  and  taught  him  this 
little  prayer,  "  Jesus,  help  me."  I  did  not  try  to  teach  him  another  word,  only, 
"  Jesus,  help  me."  Then  I  said,  "  John,  when  you  get  mad  and  they  bind  you, 
did  you  ever  think  that  you  plague  the  man  that  I  have  been  talking  about  ?  " 
He  said,  "  I  wont  do  it  any  more."  Then  his  tears  '^egan  to  flow.  He  said, 
"  Does  He  feel  likr  that  ?  "  I  said,  "  Yes."  "  I  wont  do  it  any  more.  I  wont." 
So  I  taught  hi.n  to  say  over  and  over  again,  "  Jesus,  help  me."  For  three  years 
afterward  I  never  heard  a  word  about  him,  but  left  the  results  with  the  Lord. 
Away  out  West,  hundreds  and  hundreds  of  miles  away  from  this  little  New 
England  town,  a  lady  came  to  me  and  told  me  that  she  was  at  that  almshouse 


v\. 


4i  PERSONAL    CHRISriAN    WORK. 

iefvice.  Sh«  said,  "  Do  you  know  about  that  foolish  fellow  ?  "  She  told  me 
that  she  was  visiting  in  the  place,  and  they  said  that  he  went  about  for  days  say- 
ing  to  himself,  "  Jesus,  help  me.  Jesus,  help  me."  One  day  the  boys  plagued 
the  poor  fellow,  and  he  got  mad  and  b^an  to  foam  at  the  mouth,  and  they 
said,  "  We  will  see  whether  Jesus  will  help  you."  They  went  to  get  the  ropes 
to  bind  him,  and  when  they  came  back,  he  was  sitting  up  looking  at  his  hands, 
and  he  said,  "  She  said  there  were  hurts  in  His  hands  made  there  for  me.  You 
needn't  bind  me.  I  forgot.  I  wont  plague  Him."  They  never  had  to  bind  him. 
He  went  about  saying  day  in  and  day  out,  "  Jesus,  help  me.  Je«us,  help  me." 
And  he  died  with  his  face  lifted  toward  Jesus  saying,  "  Jesus,  help  me."  M/ 
friends,  I  tell  you  it  pays  even  to  tell  these  foolish  people  the  story  of  Jesu& 
Mrs.  J.  K.  Barney,  pages  it\%,  \\<). 


LINES  OF  WORK  FOR  WOMEN. 
I  happen  to  know  a  young  lady  in  my  city,  who  is  a  very  sweet  singer  and 
player,  and  she  devotes  an  hour  and  a  half  every  week  to  go  to  our  almshoi'se 
to  sing  and  play  to  the  inmates.  She  sings  spiritual  pieces,  only,  of  course,  and 
I  know  she  would  do  almost  anything  rather  than  miss  going  there  that  after- 
noon, because  she  knows  she  will  be  looked  for  and  longed  for  by  the  men  and 
women  who  are  there. — A.  Sampson,  page  419. 


I  would  like  the  dear  women,  who  have  been  listening  to  this  talk  about 
lines  of  women's  work,  and  who  will  be  wishing  that  they  could  do  something, 
to  remember  that  if  in  your  home  God  Las  given  you  a  little  child.  He  has  given 
you  a  wonderful  gift,  and  that  the  very  holiest  work  in  the  world  is  given  into 
your  hands  while  that  child  is  there.  But  I  want  you  to  remember,  if  you  are 
interested  in  something  outside  also,  you  will  be  all  the  more  faithful  to  your 
child.  Sometimes  it  is  said  that  women,  who  go  out  into  this  work  forget  their 
home  work  and  neglect  it,  but  I  want  to  give  my  testimony  that  during  the 
twenty-five  years  of  my  work  I  have  found  that  the  won;  "in  on  whom  God  laid 
the  burden  of  going  out  have  been  most  faithful  and  true  ir,  their  own  home  life 
also.  Sometimes  you  brothers  feel  a  little  like  criticising  an  1  vender  if  we  have 
any  right  to  do  it.  But  remember  that  passage  where  the  Lord  Himself  on  that 
first  morning  ifter  He  had  risen  told  the  women  to  "  go  and  tell."  Tell  what  ? 
Tell  that  they  had  seen  the  Lord.  I  want  to  say  that  Christ  Himself  has  told 
women  to  go  out  and  tell  what  they  have  seen  of  the  Lord.  Oh,  blessed  message 
for  women  to  carry  !  Blessed  message  to  give  in  our  homes  !  Blessed  message  to 
give  out  wherever  He  shall  open  the  door ! — Mrs.  J.  K.  Barney,  page  424. 


'.  I  think  that,  when  we  begin  to  wish  and  think  we  want  something  prominent 
to  do,  there  may  be  danger,  but  I  think,  when  we  want  to  do  the  Lord's  work, 
and  earnestly  look  around  to  see  what  it  is  He  wants  us  to  do,  we  shall  surely 
find  our  place.  There  is  a  place  for  every  Christian  woman  to-day  in  making 
the  touch  of  her  life  felt  upon  society  around  her  as  well  as  upon  her  home  and 
church.— J/fJ.  E.  .S.  Burlingame,  page  424. 


As  to  what  Christian  women  can  do,  I  want  to  say  that  some  Christian 


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women  of  our  city  have  been  writing  letters  to  the  patients  in  the  hospitals  and 
to  the  prisoners  in  our  jail  and  in  the  State  Prison.  I  have  been  to  these  ladies  to 
find  out  what  the  results  have  been,  and  I  have  found  that  the  prisoners  keep 
the  letters,  and  some  of  them  have  pasted  them  on  their  walls,  and  the  officers 
have  told  me  that  they  read  them  over  and  over. 

I  want  to  speak  another  word  to  the  Christian  teachers,  and  that  is,  find  out 
the  birthday  of  your  scholars  and  write  to  them  on  their  birthdays  and  give  them 
some  pretty  text  cards.  That  is  a  simple  way  of  working  for  Christ,  and  it  is 
one  of  the  good  ways.— ^./.  Gillette,  pages  424,  425. 


Mr.  Chairman,  I  would  like  to  say  a  word  or  two  about  the  labor  of  a  lady 
just  to  show  what  one  woman  can  do  if  she  is  willing  to  do  what  the  Lord  want& 
of  her.  I  was  converted  in  a  very  strange  place  twenty-two  years  ago,  on  a 
British  man-of-war,  a  strange  place  for  Christ  to  find  me  and  me  to  find  Him, 
but  that  is  where  we  met  in  June,  1868.  I  was  talking  with  a  young  man,  who 
was  going  out  with  me,  and  he  said,  "  I  am  going  to  write  a  letter  home  to  a 
lady,  who  has  asked  me  to  do  so.  She  is  going  to  write  to  six  soldiers,  and  I 
am  one  of  the  six,  and  I  shall  write  a  letter  home  to  her  and  tell  her  about 
things."  1  said,  "  I  am  very  glad  you  have  such  a  lady  friend."  And  I  am  glad 
to  know  that  there  are  several  ladies  who  are  working  for  the  soldiers  in  the 
British  army,  I  said,  "  I  would  like  to  know  one  lady,  who  was  working  for  the 
British  navy."  That  young  man  wrote  a  letter  home,  and  when  I  arrived  back 
in  England,  I  found  a  letter  waiting  for  me  from  that  lady.  She  wrote  me  say- 
ing, "  1  do  not  know  anything  about  the  navy  or  about  shipping,  but,  if  you  can 
tell  me  any  way  that  I  can  do  something,  I  am  ready  to  do  it,  and  I  will  be  the 
one  woman  for  the  navy."  I  sat  down  and  made  out  a  list  of  the  men  I  knew 
in  the  service,  and  I  sent  her  the  list.  I  said,  "  You  write  to  every  one  of  these 
and  ask  every  one  of  them  to  send  you  a  similar  list,  and  then  Uke  a  book  and 
have  it  indexed  and  begin  that  work.  For  three  years  she  did  that  kind  of  work, 
sending  papers  and  books,  and  to-day  she  has  four  large  buildings,  "  Sailors' 
Rests,"  as  they  are  called.  She  has  been  the  means  of  the  conversion  of  hun- 
dreds of  our  men.  The  work  that  woman  has  done,  and  is  doing,  is  something 
wonderful.  She  has  pat  her  hand  to  the  work,  and  God  is  honoring  \itx.—Dr. 
George  D.  Dowkontt,  page  ifl^. 


I  think  I  could  stand  here  and  talk  six  hours  on  this  subject,  "  Woman  as  a 
Christian  Worker."  I  just  want  to  say  this  word.  The  question  is,  "  How  are 
you  going  to  begin  ?  "  I  will  tell  you.  Just  go  and  tell  the  Lord  that  you  are 
ready  to  do  anything  He  wants,  and  then  do  the  first  thing  He  sends.  I  want 
to  give  you  an  illustration  on  that  point. 

A  woman  came  to  me  and  said,  "  I  want  to  be  in  Christian  work,  and  I 
have  wanted  to  for  a  long  time."  I  said,  "  Why  don't  you  go  into  it  then  ?  " 
She  said,  "  Well.  I  went  to  Mr.  M ,  a  prominent  Christian  worker  in  Minne- 
apolis, and  told  him  I  wanted  him  to  give  me  some  work,  and  what  do  you  sup- 
pose he  wanted  me  to  do  ?  He  said, '  I  am  going  to  have  a  temperance  meet- 
ing, and  there  is  a  woman  that  I  want  to  have  go,  but  she  cannot  becaiue  of 
her  baby.    I  want  you  to  take  care  of  that  baby.'    The  idea  of  asking  me  to 


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take  care  of  a  baby !  "  That  woman  has  never  been  able  to  get  into  the  work 
from  that  time  to  this. 

A  young  English  woman  came  to  me  and  said,  "  Mr.  Torrey.  I  want  to  go 
into  Christian  work.  Have  you  something  for  me  to  do  ?  "  It  was  when  I  was 
Superintendent  of  a  mission  in  Minneapolis.  I  will  call  her  by  her  own  name. 
I  said,  "  Polly,  I  haven't."  She  said,  "  I  must  have  something  to  do,  I  am 
willing  to  do  anything."  I  said.  "  I  haven't  anything  except  the  janitor  work  of 
this  room."  She  said.  "  I  will  do  that."  I  said,  "  No.  I  don't  want  any 
woman  around  here  filling  stoves  and  doing  such  work."  She  said,  '•  Mr.  Tor- 
rey, I  must  have  that  position."  I  let  her  have  it  against  my  feelings  if  not 
against  my  conscience.  I  want  to  tell  yon  that  that  woman  went  to  work  and 
filled  stoves,  when  somebody  did  not  help  her.  She  did  that  work  for  a  while, 
pid  I  never  had  a  worker  in  all  I  have  had  work  for  me,  who  was  more  used  in 
winning  souls  lo  Christ.  That  woman  became  one  of  my  missionaries,  and  I 
guess  she  was  the  best  missionary  I  ever  had,  the  best  lady  missionary,  anyhow. 
Women  are  always  the  best,  because  they  are  -.  willing  to  do  anything. 
Nobody  will  know  this  side  of  eternity  how  many  persons  that  little  Polly  has 
been  the  means,  under  God,  of  leading  to  Christ. 

Christian  women,  when  you  are  willing  that  God  should  use  you,  He  will 
keep  opening  doors  and  doors,  till  you  have  more  than  ten  women  can  do.— Rev. 
A'.  A.  Torrey,  page  426. 


JOHN  RING. 

There  was  a  war  begun  in  i860,  which  some  in  this  generation  have  foi- 
gotten.  John  Ring  went  out  with  me  in  that  war  as  a  boy  in  care  of  my  tent. 
The  rules  of  the  army  allowed  me  a  boy  to  wait  on  me  as  an  officer,  and  so  I 
took  him  in  my  tent  with  me.  The  first  day  h»  came  into  my  tent  at  Readville, 
Mass.,  he  took  out  his  Testament  and  read  it.  I  boasted  then  that  I  did  not  be- 
lieve in  the  Bible  at  all,  claimed  that  Christians  were  all  hypocrites,  and  said  sq. 
When  he  read  in  his  Testament,  I  began  to  laugh  at  him.  He  seemed  shocked. 
I  laughed  at  him  till  he  went  out  and  read  his  Bible  In  the  barracks.  He  said 
he  had  promised  his  mother  to  read  it,  and  so  I  said  less  on  that  account.  We 
went  to  New  Berne.  North  Carolina,  and,  when  there,  I  was  in  command  of  a 
section  of  the  artillery  at  Newport.  Jchnnie  came  in  one  night— it  rained  hard— 
and  took  out  his  Testament  and  began  to  read  in  it.  I  grew  angry  and  said, 
"  We  have  had  nonsense  enough.  I  do  not  believe  in  it.  It  is  all  foolishness." 
He  seemed  to  feel  badly  about  it,  and  still  held  on  to  it  and  looked  at  it  sideways, 
and  held  the  cover  half  way  m\.  and  looked  in  one  side,  as  a  bo,  -.vould  do.  I 
called  in  the  orderly  sergeant  and  said  to  him,  "  Now  we  will  have  a  sermon. 
Now.  if  he  don't  preach,  we  will  send  him  to  the  guard-house  and  keep  him 
there  all  night.  Now.  Johnnie,  get  up  and  preach."  He  looked  at  me  to  see  if  I 
was  in  earnest.  He  flushed  ;  his  eyes  flashed  ;  he  trembled,  and  then  he  rapped 
upon  that  little  table  and  said,  '•  Captain,  1  love  you,  but  you  are  a  very  wicked 
man"  I  did  not  wish  him  to  preach  any  more.  If  a  stroke  of  lightning  had 
come  down  the  centre  pole  of  my  tent,  it  would  not  have  been  more  startling. 
I  walked  out  and  felt  very  repentant. 

A  few  days  after,  when  I  was  about  twelve  miles  from  that  station,  there 


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was  a  sudden  and  unexpected  attack.  They  drove  out  our  men.  and  many  were 
killed.  Some  tried  to  swim  across  the  river  and  some  were  killed  in  the  river. 
The  enemy  came  down  to  the  bank  of  the  river,  and  the  orderly  sergeant  after 
they  had  crossed  ordered  the  bridge  to  be  fired.  Johnnie  came  up  and  said, 
"  Where  is  the  Captain's  sword  ?  "  "  Why,"  the  sergeant  said,  "  he  has  got  it 
on."  I  did  have  on  the  regulation  sword.  He  meant  the  one  that  was  presented 
to  me  at  Springtield,  when  I  was  Captain  in  the  Forty-Sixth  Massachusetts. 
Johnnie  said  again,  "  Where  is  that  sword  ?  "  And  the  sergeant  said,  "  I  do  not 
care  where  it  is."  Johnnie  went  back  across  the  bridge,  which  was  burning  with 
tar  and  turpentine.  He  ran  back  to  my  burning  tent  for  that  sword.  On  it  my 
soldiers  in  Springfield  had  had  inscribed,  "  Vera  Amicitia  Est  Sempiterna  " — 
"True  Friendship  is  Eternal."  I  would  have  given  my  life  for  it,  I  think,  though  I 
never  pretended  to  be  a  very  brave  man. 

He  got  the  sword  and  ran  back  to  the  bridge,  which  was  blazing.  He  ran 
in  and  went  half  way  across  the  bridge  when  he  was  noticed  by  the  Confederate 
capuin,  who  took  out  his  white  handkerchief  and  called  out,  "  Leap  off !  leap  off ! 
We  wont  shoot  you  ;  we  will  save  you  ;  we  wont  take  you  !  just  leap  off  !  " 
But  he  could  not  hear  in  the  fire.  He  ran  around  columns  of  lire  and  ran  out  at 
the  end  of  the  bridge,  as  they  told  it  to  me.  He  fell,  and  they  lifted  him  up  and 
put  him  on  a  gun-carriage.  My  sword  had  faller.  from  his  grasp  down  on  the 
bank  of  the  river.  They  took  him  to  the  hospital  at  Beaufort,  and  I  did  nor  see 
him  again.  A  little  while  afterward  they  telegraphed  me  that  Johnnie  was  dead. 
His  body  has  since  been  brought  back  and  buried  in  the  town  of  Worthington, 
Mass. 

I  have  the  sword,  and  it  hangs  over  my  bed  in  my  home,  and,  when  these 
friends  come  to  see  me  in  Philadelphia,  the  first  thing  will  be  to  tell  you  why  I 
am  a  Christian  and  take  you  in  and  show  you  that  sword.  I  see  it  every  night 
and  every  morning.  If  I  shall  do  any  good  or  if  I  have  done  any  good,  it  is  be- 
cause God  raised  up  some  Sunday  school  teacher  or  Christian  parent,  who  said 
to  that  boy  it  was  ais  duty  to  remember  his  dying  Mother's  request. — Jiev,  /ius- 
sell  H.  Comuell,  pages  430,  431. 


FRUIT-BEARING. 
I  wasi  thinking  of  this  matter  of  fruit-bearing.  The  Saviour  said,  "  Abide  in 
me,  and  I  in  you.  As  the  branch  cannot  bear  fruit  of  itself,  except  it  abide  in 
the  vine ;  1:0  more  can  ye,  except  ye  abide  in  me."  Except  the  branches  abide 
in  the  vine,  they  cannot'  bear  fruit.  Now  it  is  equally  true  that  the  vine  cannot 
bear  fruit  without  tiie  iTandics.  We  cannot  bear  fruit  as  branches  in  this  world, 
unless  we  are  connected  with  Christ,  the  vine.  Neither  can  He  bear  fruit  except 
through  us,  the  branches.  And  if  we  do  not  bear  fruit,  and  if  the  world  does  not 
get  saved  through  our  instrumentality  as  branches,  there  is  no  salvation  that  we 
know  of.  That  is  told  us  in  God's  Word.  Some  few  years  ago,  I  learned  a 
lesson  about  this  fruit-bearing.  The  house  that  I  lived  in  had  a  little  garden. 
The  nuui  who  owned  the  house  had  lived  there  and  had  done  considerable  to 
make  it  a  comfortable  home.  He  had  planted  two  pear  trees,  and,  when  the 
time  came  around  for  bearing  fruit,  I  remember  that  one  tree  bore  quite  a  num- 
ber of  pears,  and  we  enjoyed  them  very  much,  but  the  other  tree  on  the  same 


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piece  of  ground,  just  a  few  feet  off.  did  not  bear  any  fruit  except  one  pear  that 
was  on  the  top  of  the  tree.  We  said,  "  There  must  be  some  unseen  disease. 
We  must  look  for  the  cause,"  We  got  a  man  to  look  at  the  tree,  and  he  said 
that  there  was  some  kind  of  worms  upon  the  root,  and  he  gave  us  directions  for 
destroying  them.  When  the  season  came  around  the  next  year  for  fruit-bearing, 
that  tree  bore  the  same  amount  of  fruit  as  the  other  tree.  The  trouble  before 
was  that  there  was  something  at  the  root.  So,  dear  friends,  it  may  be  with  many 
of  us ;  there  is  something  wrong  at  the  root.  There  are  those  who  are  bearing  very 
little,  hardly  any  fruit.  Let  us  pray  that  God  will  help  us  cleanse  the  roots,  so 
that  we  mny  bear  more  fruit  in  the  future.— />.  Geo.  D.  Dawkontt,  page  435. 

:  '  MOUNTAINS  REMOVED. 

I  have  been  thinking  through  this  Convention  that  I  would  like  to  leave  with 
all  of  you  the  eleventh  of  Mark.  It  seems  to  me,  we  have  some  wonderful 
teaching  in  regard  to  Christian  life  there.  I  remember  a  few  years  ago  coming 
to  this  verse.  "  For  verily  I  say  unto  you,  That  whosoever  shall  say  unto  this 
mountain,  Be  thou  removed,  and  be  thou  cast  into  the  sea ;  and  shall  not  doubt 
in  his  heart,  but  shall  believe  that  those  things  which  he  saith  shall  come  to  pass  ; 
he  shall  have  whatsoever  he  saith."  I  read  that  verse  over  and  over,  and  for  a 
long  time  I  could  not  read  anything  else,  and  1  saw  it  was  as  much  for  the 
disciples  of  to-day  as  it  was  for  those  of  the  time  of  Christ.  I  did  not  have  the 
faith  to  say  to  the  mountains  of  difficulty,  *'  Be  thou  removed."  The  second 
step  is,  "  What  things  soever  ye  desire,  when  we  pray,  believe  that  ye  receive 
them,  and  ye  shall  have  them."  That  stirred  me  considerably,  till  I  remembered 
this  verse  in  the  First  Epistle  of  John,  "  If  we  ask  anything  according  to  his  will, 
he  heareth  us."  I  said,  "  If  I  ask  anything  in  accordance  with  His  will,  I  can 
aik  it  in  confidence  and  know  that  He  hears  me."  1  know  that  the  Lord  has 
brought  that  chapter  home  to  me.  If  you  will  read  it,  you  will  find  that,  when 
our  Lord  came  to  the  Temple,  it  must  first  be  cleansed  before  He  could  dwell  in 
it-.  Dear  friends,  if  we  would  have  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  remember 
that  first  the  temple  must  be  cleansed,  and  then  go  forth  into  this  work  which 
has  been  presented  here,  each  one  saying  in  Jesus  Christ  to  the  mountains,  "  Be 
thou  removed." — Mrs.  H.  J.  Pierson,  page  435. 


r  "  IN  PRISON  AND  YE  CAME  UNTO  ME." 

I  just  want  to  speak  of  one  thing  that  I  am  going  to  do  by  the  help  of  Jesus 
that  I  haven't  done  before.  When  Brother  Davis  said  to  me  yesterday  afternoon, 
".Wont  you  go  with  me  to  the  police  station  at  eight  o'clock  to-morrow  morn- 
ing ?  "  I  said,  "  I  cannot  go.  I  would  love  to  go,  but  I  cannot."  But  after  I 
heard  his  report  I  said,  "  I  will  go,  if  I  crawl  on  my  hands  and  knees." 
[Applause.]  And  I  was  down  there  to-day,  before  he  was.  I  tell  you.  my 
friends,  dear  Brother  Miller  and  I  have  been  talking  about  this,  and  we  have  got 
to  go  to  that  police  station  every  morning.  I  am  in  my  fifty-fourth  year,  but  he 
isi  only  twenty-four,  thank  God  !  We  are  going  to  try  and  get  down  there.  Oh, 
the  sights  I  saw  there  this  morning !  Two  little  girls  were  in  there,  one  eight 
and  the  other  ten  years  old,  committed  for  burglary,  and  their  mother  was  there 
to  see  them.    I  could  not  stand  it  to  look  at  those  little  girls  only  eight  and  ten 


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years  old.  I  went  to  talk  with  a  little  boy  twelve  years  old.  Then  we  talked 
with  men  and  dear  Davis  did  something  that  I  never  did.  He  said  to  a  prisoner, 
"  My  dear  Brother,  1  want  your  hand.  I  want  to  (eel  the  touch  of  your  hand 
before  we  kneel  here  in  prayer."  As  they  knelt  there  clasping  hands  I  learned  a 
new  lesson.  Then  he  said,  "  O  my  Brother,  it  is  Jesus  that  keeps  me  this  side 
the  bars.  If  it  were  not  for  Jesus,  1  should  be  on  the  other  side  with  you."  I 
tell  you,  my  dear  brethren,  I  have  learned  many  lessons  in  this  (.'onvention. 
How  I  thank  God  for  it !  I  am  going  to  be  a  better  Christian  for  it,  a  humbler 
worker.  I  am  going  to  spend  and  be  spent  more  than  I  have.  And  I  am  going 
out  not  to  be  ministered  unto  but  to  minister  in  His  name. — H.J.  OilletU,  page 
437.  • 


CLOSING  WORDS. 
I  am  impressed  after  this  week  of  marvellous  inspiration  and  uplift  with 
the  danger  for  you  and  me  to  have  come  here  for  these  six  or  seven  days  and, 
having  our  hearts  glow  and  our  wtole  beings  stirred  over  and  over,  to  go  out  and 
not  say,  "  Lord,  what  wilt  Thou  h«ve  me  to  do  }  "  If  we  do  not  do  it,  the  next 
time  it  will  take  a  g04)d  deal  biggei  Convention  to  bring  us  up  where  we  are 
now.  If  we  are  not  going  to  lose  by  reason  of  this  Convention,  we  must  endeav- 
or not  to  go  home  and  say,  "  My  pastor  should  be  a  better  man  and  preach 
better,"  but,  "  What  am  /  going  to  do  and  be  ?  "  Then  the  inspiration  turned  to 
something  practical  will  grow  and  grow,  and  something  will  come  of  it.  I  just 
wanted  to  say  that  for  us  to  have  our  feelings  moved  and  be  inspired  as  we  have 
been  and  elevated  and  not  put  that  inspiration  into  action  is  a  dangerous  thing. 
Rev.  H.H.  Kelsey,  page  ^^. 


The  impression  this  Convention  has  made  on  me  is  this,  that  it  is  not  by 
might  nor  by  power  ;  it  is  not  by  organization  or  by  planning  this  way  or  that, 
but  by  the  Holy  Ghost.  When  we  have  heard  such  reports  as  we  have  during 
the  past  week,  I  think,  Mr.  Chairman,  when  we  go  from  this  house  to-night, 
workers  all  over  this  land,  we  shall  go  with  a  determination  to  put  our  trust  in 
God  more  than  ever,  and  pray  God  that  we  may  be  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost. 
E.  B.  Dillingham,  page  440. 


I  have  always  believed  in  the  Holy  Ghost.  I  have  believed  His  power  was 
able  to  help  me  in  my  work,  but  I  have  wanted  to  do  the  planning,  and  I  have 
wanted  Him  to  do  the  work.  I  wanted  to  give  the  orders  and  let  Him  come 
and  assist  me,  but  that  is  changed  now,  I  believe.  I  think  I  shall  go  back  home 
to  work  and  ask  Him  to  use  me. — A  Delegate,  page  440. 


The  dear  Master  has  given  me  a  message  in  Nehemiah,  the  eighth  chapter 
and  tenth  verse,  "  Go  your  way,  eat  the  fat,  and  drink  the  sweet,  and  send  por- 
tions unto  them  for  whom  nothing  is  prepaied  :  for  this  day  is  holy  unto  our 
Lord  :  neither  be  ye  sorry ;  for  the  joy  of  the  Lord  is  your  strength." — Miss  B. 
H.  Wright,  page  444. 


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APPENDIX. 


HOW   TO   SEND    MOMEY. 


To  send  money  in  an  ordinary  letter  is,  of  course, 
subject  to  considerable  risk.  Our  experience,  how- 
ever, has  been  not  unfavorable  witii  this  method. 
Bills  should  be  carefully  wrapped,  so  as  not  to  show 
through  the  envelope.  Money  sent  in  this  wav  is  at 
the  responsibility  of  the  one  sendinjf  it.  Postal 
notes  are  only  a  trifle  safer,  if  any,  than  ordinary 
bills. 

A  registered  letter  is  a  very  desirable  way  of 
sending  money,  as  it  is  perfectly  safe  and  the  sender, 
if  in  the  United  States,  receives  a  receipt  sent  by 
the  Post  Office  authorities  and  signed  by  the  person 
to  whom  it  is  addressed. 

Checks,  whether  they  are  large  or  small  are 
readily  cashed  at  the  New  Haven  banks  without 
expense,  and  it  is  not  even  necessary  that  they 
should  be  New  York  checks  or  drafts.  This  is 
safe  and  inexpensive.  All  such  checks  should  be 
made  payable  to  •'  The  Bureau  of  Supplies." 


Address  all  communications  to  ^     '         , 

BUREAU    OF    SUPPLIES, 

First  National  Bani<  Building, 

New  Haven,  Conn. 

In  sending  orders  for  "  Personal  Christian  Work,"  "  Reaching  the  Masses," 
Ri  ports  of  the  Conventions,  etc.,  please  either  copy  the  form  below  or  fill  it  out 
and  cut  off  on  the  black  lines. 


Bureau  of  Supplies,  New  Haven,  Conn., 

Please  send  me, copies  "  Personal  Christian 

Work ;    Why  and  How."  also. copies  "  Reaching  the  Masses  and 

How  it  is  Done  ■■ ..copies  * 


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Enclosed  find ^dollars. 

Name,  t  — 


Street  and  No.  (if  city) - 

City,  town  or  village, State, 


♦  //■//  /«  of/ier  publications  if  desired. 

t  Fill  in  the  title  -with  the  name,  and  ladies  will  please  write  in  "  Miss  " 
or  "  Mrs." 


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ORIGIN   AND    WORK    COMMITTEE    FOR    CHRISTIAN 

WORKERS  IN  THE  UNITED  STATES  AND 

CANADA  AND   CO-OPERATING 

MEMBERS. 

'...:,    —International  Christian    Workers  Association,— 


The  Committee  was  appointed  at  the  Convention  of  Christian  Worlcers 
— leaders  in  missions,  evangelists,  pastors,  laymen  and  others  of  various  denomi- 
nations, engaged  or  interested  in  special  efforts  to  reach  the  classes  outside  of  the 
ordinary  ministrations  of  the  church— held  in  Chicago,  111.,  for  eight  days,  June 
16-23.  1886. 

In  the  words  of  the  resolution  under  which  they  were  appointed  they  were 
"  to  secure  more  zealous  and  united  effort  in  the  work  of  evangelizing  the  masses, 
who  are  not  reached  by  the  ordinary  ministrations  of  the  Gospel  *  ♦  ♦  to 
act  in  any  wise  way  so  as  to  promote  union  among  the  various  city  evangeliza- 
tion agencie's,  to  strengthen  the  hands  of  the  workers,  to  bring  new  laborers  into 
the  field,  co-operate  with  the  churches  without  regard  to  denomination,  and 
otherwise  plan  for  and  prosecute,  as  stewards  of  Jesus  Christ  and  representatives 
of  the  Christian  workers  of  America,  this  work  among  the  lost  and  perishing 
multitudes." 

The  Committee  were  also  instructed  to  call  a  second  Convention  of  Christian 
workers  for  purposes  of  conference,  fellowship,  discussion  of  plans  and 
methods  of  Christian  work.  This  Convention  was  held  in  the  Broadway  Taber- 
nacle, New  York  City,  for  eight  days,  Sept.  21-28,  1887. 

At  the  New  York  Convention  the  Committee  was  made  a  permanent  Com- 
mittee, subject  f.o  the  authority  of  future  Conventions.  It  was  also  voted  that 
the  work  of  the  Committee  should  be  continued  under  the  resolution  as  above, 
and  that  they  should  call  and  arrange  for  Conventions  similar  to  those  already 
held.  Three  annual  CorfVitftions  have  since  been  held — Detroit,  Mich,  (six  days, 
Nov.  15-26, 1888),  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  (six  days,  Oct.  24-29,  1889),  and  Hartford,  Conn, 
(seven  days,  Nov.  6-12,  1890). 

The  most  important  work  of  the  Committee  in  addit'o.:  to  acting  as  a  bureau 
of  information  for  the  benefit  of  Christian  work  and  workers  has  been  : 

1 .  Reports  of  each  of  the  Conventions,  making  pamphlets  of  from  1 50  to 
460  pages  have  been  published  and  many  thousands  of  copies  have  been  distrib- 
iited  and  sold  in  the  United  States,  Canada  and  elsewhere.  These  reports  are 
practically  pen-pictures  of  the  Conventions,  giving  many  of  the  prayers,  questions, 
answers  and  brief  talks  which  follow  the  twenty  or  twenty-five  minutes'  opening 
papers  and  address  s.  They  are  considered  by  many  the  best  books  in  the 
English  language  on  American  mission  and  church  methods  among  the  unevange- 
lized  classes.  The  effect  of  their  distribution  among  theological  students,  mission 
workers,  pastors  and  church  members  is  to  encourage  s>'stematic  and  thorough 
work  as  well  as  increase  Christian  zeal  and  earnestness.  It  is,  in  fact,  the  same 
as  that  produced  by  th«  Convention  itself,  which  "  its  attendants,"  in  the  words 
of  a  prominent  Massachusetts  pastor,  "  are  tempted  to  pronounce  the  most  live, 
practical,  aggressive,  soul-revaing  and  soul-cheering  gathering  among  the  hun- 
dreds that  clai'n  our  time." 

2.  The  '3oys'  Work  or  Work  for  Boys  which  at  the  close  of  the  New  York 


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Convention,  the  Committee  voted  authority  to  the  Secretary  to  organize  through- 
out the  United  States  and  Canada.  This  is  a  work  for  boys  who  are  accustomed 
to  spend  their  evenings  about  the  streets  and  in  other  places  of  temptation.  It 
was  begun  by  the  appointment  of  a  Committee  in  Connecticut  in  Nov.  1887. 
This  was  soon  followed  by  the  organization  of  the  International  Committee  and 
the  appointment  of  the  Committee  for  Massachusetts.  The  International  Com- 
mittee at  present  are  President  Franklin  Carter  of  Williams  College,  Chairman, 
Williamstown,  Mass.;  Charles  E.  Graves,  Treasurer,  New  Haven  Conn.;  Ernest 
Whitney,  Secretary,  Colorado  Springs.  Col.;  Rev.  John  C.  Collins,  General 
Superintendent,  New  Haven,  Conn.;  John  V.  Farwell,  Chicago,  HI.;  C.  B.  Knevals, 
New  York,  N.  Y.;  Joseph  R.  Hawley,  Hartford,  Conn.;  S.  H.  Blake,  Toronto, 
Can.  About  fourteen  thousand  boys  have  been  gathered  into  the  rooms  which 
have  been  organized  and  twenty  Clubs  are  now  in  operation,  chiefly  in  Massa- 
chusetts and  Connecticut.  The  rooms  are  in  charge  of  Christian  young  men 
as  Superintendents  and  are  open  evenings  during  the  colder  months  of  the  year 
usually  from  seven  to  nine  o'clock.  The  Superintendents  give  their  time  during 
the  day  to  visiting  the  boys  in  their  homes,  becoming  acquainted  with  them, 
learning  their  surroundings  and  in  various  ways  judiciously  helping  them.  The 
plan  is  not  to  hold  what  are  usually  known  as  religious  meetings  but  by  opening 
the  rooms  and  attracting  the  boys  during  the  week  evenings  from  the  streets  by 
means  of  int  Testing  books  and  innocent  amusements,  obtain  access  to  them  and 
do  Christian  work  among  them  individually,  connect  them  with  Sunday  schools, 
lead  them  to  become  Christians  and  also  help  them  in  temporal  matters  by  means 
of  Manual  Training  Classes,  Penny  Savings  Banks,  etc. 

3.  A  Committee  has  also  been  appointed  for  Student  Work  of  which  Rev. 
Graham  Taylor,  D.  D.,  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  is  Chairman  ;  Rev  .  H.  Lee,  of 
Springfield,  Mass.,  Secretary,  and  Daniel  R.  Howe,  of  Hartford,  Conk.  .  Treasurer. 
The  plan  for  the  Student  Work  is  to  furnish  employment  for  college  students 
during  their  summer  vacations  in  mission  work  under  the  direction  of  capable 
and  successful  Christian  workers.  It  is  believ(  d,  if  the  young  m«.  a  from  our 
colleges,  who  intend  to  enter  the  ministry,  can  thas  be  brought  into  contact  with 
the  peopic  and  learn  by  actual  touch  the  secret  of  hov/  to  win  the  lost  to  Christ, 
that  the  benefit  to  the  church  of  Christ  and  the  world  through  their  future 
ministry  will  be  immeasurably  increased.  Already  from  twenty  to  thirty  students 
are  employed  each  summer  in  this  way.  Full  details  of  this  work  as  well  as 
that  for  the  street  boys  are  found  in  the  Reports. 

4.  A  Bureau  of  Supplies  has  also  been  established,  which  has  for  its  object 
the  publishing  of  the  Reports,  furnishing  Boys'  Clubs  with  outfit  of  books,  games, 
etc.,  and  the  publishing  and  distribution  among  Christians  at  work  of  tracts, 
leaflets,  etc.,  adapted  to  growth  in  Christian  life  and  work. 

5.  The  Co-operating  membership.  A  formal  organization  with  constitu- 
tion and  definite  rules  was  carefully  avoided  at  the  flrst  as  a  pai,  of  the  plan  of 
work.  As  the  work  widened  our  and  gave  promise  of  great  results  through  the 
various  departments  of  work,  as  that  for  the  boys,  the  students  and  the  Conven- 
tions, the  Committee  felt  that  some  -plan  should  be  perfected  by  which  the 
Christians  at  work  and  those  specially  interested  in  sudi  work  might  share  in 
their  work  and  plans  in  a  definite  and  responsible  way.    They,  therefore,  voted 


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in  May.  1888,  previous  to  the  Detroit  Convention,  to  establish  a  Co-operating 
membership.  This  membership  does  not  interfere  with  the  rights  af  all  evangeli- 
cal Christians  to  attend  the  Conventions  and  participate,  as  far  as  they  desire, 
in  their  proceedings,  except  that  the  right  to  vote  is  limited  to  the  members  of 
the  Committee  and  Co-operating  members.  The  test  of  membership  or  simple 
creed,  as  it  may  be  called,  is  "  Co-operating  members  shall  be  persons  who  pro- 
fess to  love  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  «nd  whose  lives  agree  therewith."  They  are 
elected  by  the  Committee.  They  may  be  nominated  by  any  member  of  the 
Committee  or  Co-operating  member  by  sending  their  names  to  the  Secretary. 
On  notification  of  election  by  the  Secretary  of  the  Committee,  the  one  elected  a 
Co-operating  member  determines  the  class  of  Co-operating  membership,  that  is, 
such  a  one  chooses  whether  to  belong  to  the  Sustaining  or  Associate  membership 
class,  these  classes  with  privileges  and  obligations  being  as  follows  : 

"  Any  one  elected  a  Co-operating  member  may  become  a  Sustaining  mem- 
ber by  a  contribution  of  (or  an  agreement  to  contribute)  Jh'e  dollars  or  more 
annually.  Sustaining  members  shall  be  Co-operating  members  of  iht  first  class, 
and  have  the  right  to  vote  at  Conventions  and  otherwise  participate  in  the 
proceedings  of  Conventions.  They  receive  a  copy  of  the  Proceedings  of  Conven- 
tions and  all  other  documents  issued  by  the  Committee.  They  may  nominate 
Co-operating  members,  and  all  vacancies  in  the  Committee  will  be  filled  from 
tlieir  membership. 

"  Any  one  duly  elected  a  Co-operating  member  may  become  an  Associate 
member  by  contributing  (or  agreeing  to  contribute)  two  dollars  annually. 
Associate  members  shall  be  Co-ope;  ating  members  of  the  second  class.  They 
have  the  right  to  nominate  Co-operating  members,  to  vote  and  otherwise  partici- 
pate in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Conventions.  They  receive  a  copy  of  the  Proceed- 
ings of  Conventions  and  all  other  documents  published  by  the  Committee." 

By  a  later  vote  of  the  Committee,  Sustaining  Co-operating  members  are 
entitled  to  a  full  set  of  the  Reports  of  the  Conventions,  that  is,  to  the  Reports  of 
the  five  Conventions  which  have  been  held  and  to  all  plans  of  work,  reports, 
papers,  etc.,  which  may  be  published  from  time  to  time,  and  Associate  members 
receive  Reports,  plans  of  work,  etc.,  published  during  the  year  with  which 
membership  begins  and  thereafter  as  long  as  membership  continues. 

In  resolutions  of  the  same  date  as  that  establishing  the  Co-operating  mem- 
bership, the  Committee  voted  that  each  of  its  own  members  pay  ten  dollars 
annually,  and  that  neither  the  members  of  the  Committee  nor  the  Co-operati:  % 
members  should  be  responsible  financially,  except  for  annual  dues. 

It  is  not  the  desire  of  the  Committee  or  those  associated  in  the  present  Co- 
operating membership  to  limit  the  membership  to  a  chosen  few,  and  they  will 
elect  to  membership  any  evangelical  C^''  "ian  who  can  give  reasonable  guaran- 
tee of  Christian  character.  The  eir  iion  by  the  Committee  is  only  for  the 
purpose  of  limiting  the  membership  to  those,  who  can  give  such  guaran- 
tee, either  by  nomination  by  some  member  of  the  Committee  or  by  a  Co-operat- 
ing member. 

Co-operating  membership  begins /<»•  the  full  year  with  the  first  of  January 
of  each  year,  those  receiving  election  during  the  first  six  months  of  the  year  having 
their  membership  begin  with  the  first  of  January  of  that  year  and  those  receiving 
election  during  the  last  six  months  having  their  membership /tv/ar/^^ar  begin 
with  the  first  of  July  of  that  year  and  paying  half  year  fees  to  the  first  of  January 


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of  the  following  year  when  the  full  year  will  begin.  All  annual  fees  for  full  year 
are  payable  on  the  first  of  January  of  each  year  and  for  part  year — that  is.  when 
membership  is  accepted  between  July  and  January — at  any  time  before  January 
first.  This  arrangement  of  "  part  years  "  is  for  simplicity  and  accuracy  in  keep- 
ing the  membership  and  Treasurer's  books,  and  to  secure  for  members  joining 
after  July  first,  the  Reports  of  Conventions  issued  that  year. 

Co-operating  members  represent  the  Committee  in  the  various  states, 
cities  and  t  )wns  where  they  reside  and  may  engage  in  Christian  work  as  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Committee  as  they  may  wish  and  as  may  be  approved  by  the 
Committee.  The  duties  of  the  Co-operating  member  are  similar  to  those  of  the 
members  of  any  society.  They  are  the  constituency  of  the  Committee — without 
interfering  in  any  way  with  the  rights  of  others  engaged  or  interested  in  Christian 
work  to  attend  and  participate  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Conventions. 

This  plan  of  forming  through  a  Co-operating  membership  an  evangelical 
union  for  Christian  work  has  been  received  with  great  favor  by  prominent 
Christians  in  the  United  States  and  Canada,  and  about  seven  hundred  of  the  best 
known  workers  in  these  countries  have  become  Co-operating  members.  A 
definite  income  has  also  been  provided,  and  the  Christian  workers  who  have 
come  into  closer  and  more  responsible  association  with  the  work  have  added  in 
many  ways  to  its  efficiency. 

The  work  and  the  lines  along  which  it  was  proposed  to  develop  it  had 
become  so  well  understood,  and  the  simple  machinery  by  which  it  is  to  be  carried 
on  was  so  systematized  that  at  the  Buffalo  Convention  in  October,  1889  it  was 
voted  that  the  Committee  and  Co-operating  members  put  the  rules  which  had 
been  previously  made  for  carrying  on  the  work  into  simple  and  definite  articles 
of  association  and  become  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  the  State  of  Connecti- 
cut. This  vote  has  been  carried  out  and  the  Committee  and  Co-operating 
members  were  incorporated,  Nov.  4,  1 890,  under  the  General  Statutes  of  the 
State  of  Connecticut,  as  the  International  Christian  Workers  Association.  Under 
these  Articles  of  Association  the  previous  rules  for  carrying  on  the  work  have 
been  retained.  The  management  of  the  Association  is  placed,  as  before,  in  the 
hands  of  the  Committee,  who  are  made  responsible  to  the  members  of  the  Asso- 
ciation as  they  may  meet  in  special  meeting  at  any  time.  No  business  of  the 
Association  as  an  Association  is  transacted  at  the  Conventions,  these  being  given 
up  wholly  to  discussion  and  consideration  of  plans  and  methods  of  Christian 
work  and  all  Christians  interested  or  engaged  in  such  work  being  invited  to  be 
present  and  participate  in  the  discussions,  but  without  the  right  to  vote,  as 
previously  stated. 

The  officers  and  members  of  the  Committee  are  as  follows  :  Rev.  R.  A.  Tor- 
rey.  Chairman,  Superintendent  Bible  Institute,  Chicago,  111.;  Rev.  John  C.  Collins. 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  First  National  Bank  Building,  New  Haven,  Conn.; 
W.  H.  Howland,  Toronto  Mission  Union,  Toronto,  Can.;  Rev.  S.  P.  Holcombe. 
Central  Gospel  Mission,  Detroit,  Mich.;  Rev.  Russell  H.  Conwell,  Pastor  Grace 
Baptist  Church,  Philadelphia,  Pa.;  Col.  Geo.  R.  Clarke,  Pacific  Garden  Mission, 
Chicago,  III.;  C.  N.  Crittenton,  Florence  Night  Mission,  New  York,  N.  Y.;  Mrs. 
J.  K.  Barney,  Prison  Evangelist,  N.  W.  C.  T.  U.,  Providence,  R.  I.;  Miss  Bertha 
H.  Wright,  Young  Woman's  Christian  Institute,  Ottawa,  Can. 


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APPtNUIX. 

BIOeRAPHIOAL   NOTU. 


II 


In  "  Reaching  the  Masses  and  How  it  is  Done  "  information  concerning  the 
speaicer  and  the  work  is  usually  eiven  through  a  few  words  of  introduction  by 
the  Chairman  or  in  the  stor>*  of  the  work.  The  following  brief  biographical 
notes  are  for  the  purpose  of  giving  such  information  concerning  those  whose 
names  are  appended  at  the  ck-  ;  ofeach  selection  in  "  Personal  Christian  Work," 
when  this  information  may  not  be  gathered  from  the  selection  itself. 

Howland,  \Vm.  H.,  business  man  and  ex-mayor  of  Toronto,  Can.;  connected 
in  Christian  work  with  Toronto  Mission  Union  ;'  member  of  the  Committee  for 
Christian  Workers  in  the  United  States  and  Canada. 

Torrey.  Rev.  R.  A.,  Chairman  qf  the  Convention  and  also  of  the  Committee 
for  Christian  Workers  in  the  United  States  and  Canada  and  Superintendent  of 
Mr.  Moody's  Bible  Institute  and  Chicago  Evangelization  Society,  Chicago,  111. 

Kinney,  Rev.  H.  N.,  Pastor  Congregational  Church,  Winsted,  Conn. 

Davis,  D.  L.,  editor  and  publisher  of  the  "  Union  Gospel  News,"  Cleve- 
land, O. 

Wright,  Miss  Bertha  H.,  Ottawa,  Can.,  edits  and  publishes  "  Friend  of  the 
Friendless,!'  a  monthly  publication  ;  Superintendent  Ottawa  Young  Women's 
Christian  Institute  and  also  Superintendent  Home  for  Friendless  Women ; 
evangelist  and  Christian  worker  in  connection  with  Christian  work  in  Ottawa. 

Sampson,  A.,  lawyer,  Toronto,  Can.;  connected  with  the  Toconto  Mission 
Union. 

Clarke,  Col.  Geo.  R.,  busines.x  man,  founder  and  superintendent  Pacific 
Garden  Mission,  Chicago,  111. 

Gordon,  D.  D„  Rev.  A.  J.,  pastor  Clarendon  Street  Baptist  Church,  Boston. 

Barney,  Mrs.  J.  K.,  Providence,  R.  I.,  for  many  years,  till  1891,  Superin- 
tendent. Prison,  Jail  and  Almshouse  Work,  N.  W.  C.  T.  U.,  and  leader  with 
other  work  in  the  movement  for  the  appointment  of  police  matrons  in  police 
stations  ;  now  prison  evangelist.  World's  W.  C.  T.  U. 

Lamb,  Rev.  F.  M.,  pastor  Baptist  Church,  Williamsbridge,  N.  Y. 

Childs,  J.  Ward,  Superintendent  Bowery  Mission,  ^ '   Bowery,  New  York. 

WooUey,  John  G.,  Temperance  Evangelist  and  founder  of  Rest  Island  work 
for  intemperate  men.  Lake  City,  Minn. 

Yatman,  Rev.  C.  H.,  evangelist,  residence,  Newark,  N.  J. 

Hadley,  S.  H.,  successor  of  Jerry  McAuley  and  Superintendent  of  the  Water 
Street  Mission,  316  Water  St.,  New  York  City. 

Davis,  J.  C,  Toronto.  Can.,  workingman  and  mission  worker  in  Gospel 
Carriage  work,  Toronto,  Can. 

Hector,  Rev.  John  H.,  York,  Pa.,  lecturer  and  temperance  worker,  formerly 
pastor  of  large  and  flourishing  colored  churches  in  San  Francisco  and  Washington. 

Clarke,  Mrs.  Geo.  R.,  associated  with  her  husband.  Col.  Geo.  R.  Clarke,  in 
the  work  of  the  Pacific  Garden  Mission,  Chicago,  111. 

Coffin,  Miss  C.  E„  stenographer,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Superintendent  Prison, 
Jail  and  Almshouse  Work,  N.  W.  C.  T.  U. 

Pierson,  H.  J.,  Boston,  Mass.,  in  Christian  work  with  Gospel  Carriage  in 
which  he  visits  and  preaches  in  different  cities  in  various  sections  of  the  country. 

Tomkins,  Jr.,  Rev.  Floyd  W.,  formerly  Rector  Christ's  Church,  Hartford, 
Conn.,  now  Rector  St.  James  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  Chicago,  III. 

Mills,  Rev.  C.  S.,  formerly  Pastor  Congrejgational  church  in  North  Brookiield, 
Mas3.,  now  pastor  of  Congregational  church  in  Cleveland,  O. 

Hammond,  Rev.  Edward  Payson,  evangelist,  resideuc.  Hartford,  Conn. 

Taylor,  D.  D.,  Rev,  Graham,  Professor  Practical  Theology,  Hartford  Theo- 


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.JO  APPENDIX. 

logical  Seminary  and  paKtor  -Fourth  Congregational  Churcii.   Hartford,  Conn. 
Burlingame,  Mrs.  E.  S..  Fawtu.xet,  R.  I.,  naticnai  evangelist  under  appoint- 
ment Free  Baptist  Association,  Rhode  Island. 

Gillette,  H.  /.,  City  evangelist,  Hartford,  Conn. 

"  Dowkontt.  Dr.  Geo.  D.,  founder  and  General  Superintendent,  International 
Medical  Missionary  Society,  New  York  City. 

Conwell.  Rev.  Russell  H..  Philadelphia.  I'a.,  pastor  Clrace  Baptist  Church, 
whose  audience  room  seats  about  five  thousand  people. 

Kelsey.  Rev,  H.  H.,  pastor  Fourth  Cons^regational  Church,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Dillingham,  E.  B.,  btismess  man,  Hartford,  Conn. 


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I^EACHING  THE  MASSES  RfiO  HOW  IT  IS  OOflH. 


If  the  knowledge  of  the  Goopel  is  the  supreme  need  of  the  world,  and  this 
no  Christian  will  doubt,  this  booic  is  for  every  Christian,  who  desires  to  know  more 
and  to  do  more  in  bringing  this  knowledge  into  the  hearts  and  lives  of  perishing 
men  the  book  of  the  year. 

The  size  of  the  page,  style  of  paper,  type,  binding,  etc.,  is  the  same  as  the 
booklet  "  Personal  Christian  Work  ;  Why  and  How."  which  consists  of  selections 
from  its  pages.  It  contains  four  hundred  and  sixty  pages  with  cuu  and  plans  of 
the  great  Vanderbilt  Mission  which  is  now  being  erected  in  New  York  city 
at  an  expense  of  nearly  three  hundred  thousand  dollars,  and  which  is,  perhaps, 
the  best  planned  Christian-work  building  in  the  world.  It  also  contains  cuts  of 
three  Gospel  wagons,  with  full  description  by  the  workers  themselves  of  how 
they  are  used,  which  is  the  latest  and  most  desirable  form  of  open  air  work  in 
cities  during  the  summer.  Besides  these  there  are  portraits  of  Dr.  A.  J.  Gordon 
of  Boston,  Rev.  E.  Payson  Hammond,  Rev.  John  H.  Hector,  Mr.  Thomas  D. 
Roberts  of  Boston,  Rev.  Russell  H.  Conwell  of  Philadelphia,  a  group  of  boys  in 
a  Boys'  Club  and  of  Boys'  Club  Superintendents. 

It  will  be  sent  to  any  address  in  the  world  by  the  Bureau  of  Supplies,  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  on  receipt  of  one  dollar. 

The  following  are  some  of  the  subjects,  each«of  which  is  usually  followed  by 
a  discussion  with  questions  and  answers  thoroughly  going  over  the  subject  under 
consideration. 

1.  "  The  Whole  Church  at  Work,"  by  Rev.  H.  N.  Kinney,  Pastor  Congre- 
gational Church,  Winsted,  Conn.,  is  the  story  of  a  church  in  a  country  district  rally 
organized  and  officered,  doing  a  most  remarkable  and  successful  work  und'S' 
circumstances  which  are  usually  considered  most  unfavorable. 

2.  "  Hand-Picking  in  Christian  Work,"  is  the  address  by  W.  H.  Howland 
of  Toronto,  part  of  which  is  given  in  "  Personal  Christian  Work ;  Why  and 
How."  It  should  be  understood  that  all  of  the  selections  in  this  booklet  are 
practically  detached  sentences  from  longer  and  more  complete  addresses  and 
that  in  many  respects  they  are  incomplete,  but  it  was  impossible  to  print  the 
addresses  in  full. 

3.  "  The  Baptist  Tabernacle,"  by  Rev.  M.  R.  Deming  of  Boston,  is  the 
story  of  the  building  up  in  the  last  few  years  of  a  city  church  which  in  the  words 
of  Mr.  Deming  "  had  been  closed  for  two  years  and  was  sadly  in  need  of  repair, 
and  for  the  possession  of  which  lawsuits  were  in  progress,"  and  against  which 
there  was  also  "  an  intense  prejudice  in  the  community  on  account  of  dissensions, 
ending  in  the  breaking  up  of  the  church  organization  previously  occupying  it." 
It  is  most  suggestive  and  helpful  for  any  city  pastor,  and,  although  he  may 
not  be  able  to  copy  or  use  all  the  various  features  of  Uie  plan  of  wonc,  he  would 
find  in  it  much  that  would  be  suggestive  and  hel|>ful. 

4.  "  The  Sunday  Evenine  Service,"  by  Rev.  C.  S.  Mills  of  North  Brookfield, 
Mass.  Mr.  Mills  with  several  other  pastors  :s  the  author  of  the  Brookfield 
Services,  and  he  brings  out  in  this  address  and  in  the  discussion  following  his 
latest  views  on  how  to  secure  a  Sunday  evening  audience  and  do  the  very  best 
work  possible. 

5.  Bible  Reading,  "  The  Model  Worker,"  by  Mrs.  J.  K.  Barney  of  Provi- 
dence. R.  I.  Part  of  this  is  given  m  "  Personal  Christian  Work ;  Why  and  How." 

6.  "  Every  Christian  at  Work,"  by  Rev.  A.  J  Gordon.  D.  D.  of  Boston.  It 
is  a  matter  of  great  regret  that  the  size  of  the  booklet  would  not  allow  the  rf 


H  APPENDIX.     .    !   ^  ,^   :    , 

printing  of  Dr.  Gordon's  entire  address,  but  every  one,  it  is  believed,  who  reads 
the  detached  sentences  which  are  put  into  th;  booklet  from  this  marvellous 
address,  will  wish  to  secure  the  entire  address,  which  was  the  Convention  ser- 
mon and  filled  with  inspiration  and  in^^truction.  It  would  well  bear  rcprintinc 
in  a  separate  book  and  m  the  hands  of  ordinary  publishers,  the  matter,  which  it 
contains  might  readily  be  expanded  into  a  book  which  would  probably  t)e  sold 
for  a  sum  not  less  than  that  which  "  Reaching  the  Masses  "—practically  contain- 
ing thirty  or  forty  books — can  be  obtained. 

7.  .".The  Boston  Missionary  Training  School,"  by  Rev.  A.J.  Gordon,  D. 
D.  This  is  a  story  of  Dr.  Gordon's  work  in  preparing  young  men  of  moderate 
education  for  Christian  work,  giving  what  he  considers  the  essentials  of  prepara- 
tion for  such  work. 

8.  "  Tent  Work."  with  cut  of  tent  by  Rev.  F.  L.  Smith.  New  York.  This 
is  a  story  of  practical  experience  in  this  work  and  together  with  the  discussion  it 
covers  the  ground  in  a  most  thorough  manner. 

9.  "  The  Bowery  Mission,  "  by  J.  Ward  Childs,  is  the  story  of  one  of  the 
greatest  but  not  verv  widely  known  missions  of  the  country,  in  which  a  very 
wonderful  work,  chiefly  for  men,  has  been  done. 

10.  "  The  Brotherhood  of  St.  Andrew,"  by  Rev.  E.  S.  Lines  of  New  Haven, 
Conn.  This  is  a  full  account  of  the  Brotherhood  of  young  men  in  the  Episcopal 
Church  for  work  among  young  men. 

11.  "  Young  Men  and  the  Church  ;  Why  they  are  Out ;  How  to  Get  Them 
In."  This  is  an  address  with  disscussion  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Dickinsoi,,  Pastor 
Berkeley  Temple,  Boston,  Mass.  Mr.  Dickinson  has  had  very  large  success  in  a 
church  with  every  modern  equipment  for  work  for  young  men  and  his  inferences, 
plans  and  suggestions  cannot  but  prove  most  useful  to  any  pastor  and  Christian 
worker  desiring  to  reach  young  men  through  the  ordinary  and  regular  work 
of  the  church. 

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12.  "  Winning  Forces  in  Christian  Work,"  an  address  of  gi 
might  be  called  "  Life  and  Fire  " — by  Rev.  C.  H.  Yatman,  wh^ 
work  as  one  of  the  great  evangelists  is  known  to  many. 

13.  "  How  to  Save  the  Boys."  This  is  an  account  by  Rev.  John  C.  Collins 
of  the  Boys'  Ciub  work  of  the  Committee  for  Christian  Workers  in  the  United 
States  and  Canada,  by  means  of  which  over  fourteen  thousand  street  boys  have 
been  reached  and  brought  under  Christian  influences  in  the  past  three  years  and 
a  half.  It  is  a  reliable  and  interesting  statement  of  this  work  which  is  becoming 
very  widely  known  and  from  which  many  earnest  Christians  have  largt  expecta- 
tions as  an  agency  in  reaching  and  winning  to  Christ  and  good  citizer  ship  this 
most  needy  class  of  boys.  In  the  discussion  there  are  brief  addresses  by  a  num- 
ber of  the  superintendents.  In  connection  with  this  address  there  is  a  picture  of 
a  group  of  the  boys  and  of  a  group  of  the  ^-superintendents  and  officers,  showing 
both  the  class  of  boys  who  are  reached  and  the  class  of  young  men  who  are 
officers  and  superintendents. 

14.  "  The  Jerry  McAuley  Water  Street  Mission."  This  is  the  story  of  the 
work  and  of  the  methods  of  the  famous  Water  Street  Mission  founded  by  Jerry 
McAuley,  and  which  is  still  in  successful  operation  and  doing  a  remarkable  work 
among  the  most  hopeless  of  classes.  It  is  told  by  S.  H.  Hadley,  the  present 
superintendent  of  the  mission,  a  brief  account  of  whose  conversion  is  given  in 
"  Personal  Christian  Work." 

15.  "  The  Christian  Worker ;  His  Qualifications  and  Standing,"  by  W.  H. 
Howland.  Part  of  this  is  given  in  the  booklet  "  Personal  Christian  Work  ;  Why 
and  How,"  under  the  heading  "  Go  to  Work,"  beginning  on  page  27.  Its  value 
is  best  shown  by  this  extract. 

16.  "  The  Toronto  Mission  Union,"  by  A.  Sampson,  Toronto  Can.,  an 
account  of  a  practical  soUk  winning  union  mission  work  in  a  city  of  a  hundred 
(uid  fifty  thousand  inhabitants. 


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17.  "  The  Central  Union  Mission. "  Washington,  D.  C.  This  is  one  of  the 
most  successful  union  city  missions  in  America.  The  report  of  the  manner  of 
working  so  that  the  whole  city  of  Washington  is  practically  covered  by  its  oper- 
ations, thousands  of  meetings  held  yearly;  with  many  hundreds  of  conversions 
and  all  in  touch  with  the  city  churches  is  given  by  Mr.  Geo.  W.  Wheeler,  one  of 
the  directors. 

18.  "  The  Facific  Garden  Mission,"  Chicago,  111.,  by  Col.  Geo.  R.  Clarke, 
the  founder  and  present  superintendent.  This  is  a  mission  in  one  of  the  darkest 
and  most  abandoned  places  of  a  great  American  city,  which  has  been  carried  on 
for  over  thirteen  years  by  Col.  Clarke,  a  Christian  business  man  who  devotes  his 
davs  to  his  business  and  his  evenings  with  the  assistance  of  a  devoted  Christian 
wife  to  the  mission,  in  which  over  forty  thousand  persons  have  confessed  con- 
version since  its  organization. 

19.  "  St.  Bartholomew's  Mission,"  by  Col.  H.  H.  Hadley,  a  brief  outline  of 
the  present  condition  and  work  of  St.  Bartholomew's  Mission  connected  with  St. 
Bartholomew's  Church,  New  York,  and  which  is  to  be  carried  on  in  the  future 
in  the  new  and  great  modern  mission  house  built  by  Mr.  Cor..elius  and  Mrs. 
Wm.  H.  Vanderbilt  at  aii  expense  of  nearly  three  hundred  thousand  dollars  and 
of  which  full  plans  are  given  as  a  frontispiece  in  "  Reaching  the  Masses." 

20.  "  The  Jersey  City  Tabernacle,"  by  Rev.  John  L.  Scudder,  who  brings 
out  the  phase  of  the  place  and  work  of  athletics  as  an  attraction  for  young  men 
in  winning  them  to  a  Christian  life.  Mr.  Scudder  has  opened  and  is  carrying  on 
with  great  success  a  "  People's  Palace,"  the  details  and  the  results  of  which  he 
gives  m  this  address. 

21.  "  How  to  Read  the  Bible  in  Public  so  as  to  Express  its  Meaning  and 
Spirit,"  a  most  suggestive  address,  followed  by  discussion  as  is  also  Mr.  Scud- 
der's  and  nearly  all  the  other  addresses,  by  C.  Wesley  Emerson  of  Boston,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Emerson  College  of  Oratory. 

22.  "  Outlines  of  Doctrine  Essential  to  Leaders  and  Teachers  in  Christian 
work,"  by  Rev.  R.  A.  Torrey.  Part  of  this  remarkable  address  is  found  in 
"  Personal  Christian  Work."  It  was  almost  an  mjustice  to  Mr.  Torrey  to  try  to 
outline  or  still  further  condense  what  was  originally  an  outline.  The  full  address 
will  be  found  to  add  very  largely  in  effectiveness  to  the  outline  as  it  appears  in 
"  Personal  Christian  Work  ' 

23.  "  Christian  Correspondence  Aid  for  Prisonere,'  by  Mrs.  M.  O.  Kimball, 
Fredonia,  N.  Y— a  practical  experience  covering  r:any  years  of  most  successful 
work  in  saving  and  winning  to  Christ  hardened  crLninak  by  means  of  correspond- 
ence. 

24.  "  The  Guard  of  Honor,"  by  Rev.  John  C.  Collins— a  wonderful  method 
in  use  in  one  of  our  larre  cities  for  saving  homeless  men,  nearly  ten  thousand  of 
whom  have  been  brougnt  out  of  the  lowest  depths  of  degradation. 

25.  "  Mission  Work  in  Atlanta,"  by  J.  F.  Barclay— a  suggestive  story  of 
work  for  Christ  in  one  of  the  great  cities  of  the  South. 

26.  "  Christian  Work  in  Ottawa,"  by  Miss  Bertha  H.  Wright— a  story  of 
Christian  daring  and  the  keeping  power  of  God  rarely  equalled. 

27.  "  The  Brotherhood  of  Andrew  and  Philip,"  by  Rev.  Rufus  W.  Miller 
of  Reading  Pa.,  the  founder,  who  sets  forth  in  a  very  clear  manner  an  organiza- 
tion for  work  by  j  Jung  men,  in  connection  with  church  organization,  for  young 
men,  and  which  may  be  aC  pted  for  use  in  any  church. 

r",  "  Christian  Police  Association  in  Great  Britain,"  by  Mrs.  J.  K.  Barney 
of  Providence,  R.  I.— the  methods  of  work  by  which  the  Christian  police  of 
Great  Britain  are  hound  together  in  a  g^reat  brotherhood  for  work  for  their  fellow 
members. 

29.  "  The  Market  Street  Mission,"  Morristown,  N.  J.,  by  Thos.  B.  Iron- 
side— an  account  of  work  by  a  church  in  a  small  city  by  which  it  has  gone 


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out  and  is  ministering!  succeufullv  to  those  whom  it  could  not  bring  directly 
and  immediately  into  its  regular  church  services. 

30.  •'  Street  Preaching  in  London,"  by  Rev.  E.  H.  Dyington  of  Springfield, 
Ma.<ui..  who  spent  several  months  through  the  summer  of  1890  studying  rhe 
methods  of  Christian  workers  in  the  streets  of  London. 

31  "The  Chicago  ICvangelization  Society,"  by  Rev.  R.  A.  Torrey.  This 
is  the  great  work  of  IJ.  L.  Mwidy  in  Chicago  in  which  he  has  put  the  experience 
of  a  life  time  of  Christian  work  and  city  t-vangelization  into  practical  operation. 
It  is  told  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Convention  and  the  superintendent  of  tne  work. 

These  are  only  a  certain  few  of  the  subjects  considered.  Many  of  the  others 
are  equally  interesting  and  among  them  are  :  "  The  Christian  Workem'  Rescue 
Mission,"  by  Rev.  John  C.  Collins.  "  The  Methods  and  Needs  of  the  Young 
Men's  Christian  Association,"  H.  M.  Moore,  Boston,  Mass.  "  Evangelization  in 
the  Sunday  School,"  Rev.  Ford  C.  Ottman,  Newark.  N.  J.  "  Humham  Farm," 
VV.  M.  F.  Round,  New  York,  N.  Y.  "  I'ndenominational  Sunday  School  Work 
in  the  South-west,  Rev.  W.  P.  Faxson,  Springlield,  Mo.  "  College  Students  ; 
the  Missionaries  of  the  Future,"  Rev.  S.  H.  Lee,  Springfield,  Mass.  "  The 
American  Seamen's  Friend  Society,"  Rev.  W.  C.  Stitt,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
"  Evangelistic  Work  and  Methods  in  Country  Churches,"  Rev.  A.  C.  Hodges, 
Buckland,  Ma:  .,  Rev.  W,  T.  Hutchins,  Ellington,  Cdnn.  "  The  New  England 
Evangelistic  Association,"  J.  E.  Oray,  Boston,  Mass.  Brief  Reports,  Rev.  H. 
L.  Hutchins,  Kensington,  Conn.,  Rev.  H.  N.  Kinney,  Winsted,  Conn.  '•  The 
Rescue  Vork  of. the  Florence  Mission,"  Mrs.  Charlotte  Ressigue,  New  York,  N. 
Y.  "  Gospel  Wagon  Work,"  J.  C.  Davis,  Toronto.  Can.,  H,  J.  Pierson,  Boston, 
Mass.  "  Work  for  Prisoners,"  Mrs.  Geo.  R.  Clarke,  Chicago,  III.,  Miss  C.  E. 
Coffin,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  "  Madison  Square  Church  Mission,"  Chas.  E.  Ballou, 
New  York.  "  Work  Among  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,"  J.  D.  Nasmith,  Toronto, 
Can.  "  Chinese  Missions  in  Our  Cities,"  Mrs.  A.  L.  Buell,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
"  The  Helping  Hand  Mission,"  Toledo,  O.,  Thos.  McGregor.  "  The  Temporary 
Industrial  Home,  "  Boston,  Mass.,  by  Thos.  D.  Roberte.  '  Almshouse  Work," 
Mrs.  J.  K.  Barney,  Providence,  R.  1.,  and  Mrs.  Lucy  P.  Colton,  Wayne,  Mich. 
"  Woman  as  a  Christian  Worker,"  Mrs.  E.  S.  Burlingame,  Pawtuxet,  R.  I.,  and 
the  Closing  address  by  Rev.  Russell  H.  Conwell,  Pastor  Grace  Baptist  Church, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

It  will  be  seen  by  this  that  this  is  indeed  "  the  book  "  of  the  year  for  Chris- 
tians and  that  there  are  many  books,  in  fact,  contained  within  its  covers.  There 
has  been  no  attempt  to  obtain  commendations  for  printing  from  those  who  have 
read  it.  The  brief  sentences  given  below  in  commendation  which  have  been 
received  by  the  publishers  and  editor  are  the  spontaneous  and  enthusiastic 
expressions  of  approval  by  its  readers. 

"  I  have  read  Report  of  the  Hartford  Convention  from  cover  to  cover.  I 
never  saw  a  better  reported  set  of  meetings.  «  *  I  am  much  pleased  with  the 
whole  trend  of  the  Convention." — /Inf.  A.  F.  Schauffler,  D.  D.,  Vice  President 
of  the  New  York  City  Mission  and  Tract  Society. 

"  A  ms^ificent  collection  of  marvellous  facts  " — Rev.  Rufus  W.  Miller, 
Reading,  Pa.,  Founder  and  Member  Council  Brotherhood  Andrew  and  Philip. 

"  I  have  read  with  intense  interest  the  Report." — A.  F.  Irvine,  Missionary 
to  the  Bowery  Lodging  Houses.  New  York  City  Mission  and  Tract  Society. 

"  Good  in  every  particular.    It  must  be  owned  of  God.    It  cannot  be  other- 


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wise.     It  certainly  answers  '  how  to  reach  the  masses.'  "—A'   /t.   Burnelt, 
Evangelist,  Aurora,  111. 

"  Report  is  grand,"— >?«/.  C.  H.  Yatman,  Evangelist,  Newark,  N.J. 

"  Full  of  interest  and  instruction."— J/rj.y.  A'.  C. 

"  The  Convention  was  composed  of  some  of  the  best  itnown  workers  in  the 
country' ;  and  to  read  the  book  is  an  inspiration  next  only  to  that  obtained  by 
attendance  of  the  Convention  itself." — Salftn  \Mass,\  (laxetle, 

"  It  is  deliRhtful."— il//M  //.  *f.  Prosser.  Huff  ah,  N.    Y. 

"  The  I'rinted  Proceedings  of  last  Convention  reproduces  the  whole  thing 
like  a  photograph." 

"  I  find  it  better  than  I  expected.  If  I  could  not  get  another  copy,  would 
not  part  with  it  for  twice  its  cost." 

"  It  ought  to  be  in  the  home  of  every  Christian  family." 

"  A  great  book.  A  beautiful  specimen  of  the  printer's  art  •  •  its  pages 
are  a  wonderfully  inspiring  panorama  of  the  various  lines  and  phases  of  Christian 
work  carried  on  at  present  in  the  various  cities  ai>d  towns  in  our  country  and 
Canada.  Everybody  ought  to  have  a  copy."— J/zw/ow  Bulletin,  Washington, 
D.  C. 

"  It  certainly  is  a  grand  book,  worth  five  times  the  price,  an  inspiration  to 
all  who  read  it  and  a  valuable  addition  to  any  library." 

"  I  like  it  amazingly.  The  only  trouble  is  that  I  am  tempted  to  neglect  my 
work  to  read  it.  It  is  one  of  those  cases  where  '  truth  is  stranger  than  fiction,' 
and  more  deeply  interesting  and  valuable,  too." — Eev,  IVui.  Sewall,  Tempiiton, 
Mass. 

"  Wonderfully  stimulating  reading.  It  cannot  help  doing  great  good  and 
you  ought  to  feel  that  no  work  you  might  be  able  to  do  is  of  greater  importance 
or  will  De  more  used  of  God.  It  seems  to  me  that  in  no  way  can  earnest,  practi- 
cal, direct  work  for  lost  souls  be  stimulated  so  quickly  and  effectively  as  through 
the  readmg  of  this  newest  edition  of  the  '  Acts  of  the  Apostles.'  "—A'ev.  IV.  B. 
Stocking,  Superintendent  Eairview  Home  for  friendless  Children,  IVest 
Trcy,N.  Y. 

"  Am  exceedingly  pleased  with  it.  It  came  just  as  I  was  feeling  some 
revulsion  from  certain  things  that  characterize  what  Dr.  Parkhursr  has  called 
'  pious  mousing  amongst  apocalyptic  bric-a-brac,'  and  with  its  wholesome  tone 
and  aggressive  spirit  was  exceedingly  healthful." — A.  Pastor. 

"  The  Convention  was  a  remarkable  one  for  the  number  of  well  known  and 
experienced  workers  present,  and  for  the  value  of  the  papers,  addresses  and  dis- 
cussions, bearing  upon  almost  all  phases  of  missionary  and  evangelistic  work  in 
our  land.  The  volume  is  much  more  than  a  mere  report,  being  a  nearly  verba- 
tim reproduction  of  what  was  said  and  done  during  all  the  sessions  of  the  Con- 
vention, extending  through  the  entire  week,  and  presenting  in  a  vivid  manner  the 
experiences  of  many  who  have'  been  foremost  in  ihe  work." — Salem  Register, 
Mass. 

"  As  near  to  life  as  letters  can,  as  through  phonog.'aph  and  camera  they  let 
you  both  hear  and  see  what  was  said  and  done.  Prayers  and  songs,  addresses 
and  discussions,  side-remarks  and  the  by-play  of  thought  and  feeling,  the  worker, 
the  work  and  uiose  worked  for — all  are  there.  The  book  is  alive  and  begets 
life.  *  *  One  of  the  most  invaluable  treasuries  of  methods  of  Christian  work  that 
our  times  have  produced." — Bev.  Graham  Taylor,  D.  D.,  Professor  of  Practi' 
cat  Theolc^y  in  Hartford  Theological  Seminary. 

"  It  represents  every  branch  of  Christian  work  being  carried  on  in  the  world 
and  gives  unquestionably  the  most  reliable  and  helpful  information  in'  regard  to 
the  various  forms  of  Christian  work  of  anything  ever  published.  The  tMok  does 
not  represent  theory  but  actual,  practical  work  done.  No  pastor  or  Christian 
worker  can  afford  to  be  without  this  book." —  Union  Gospel  News, 


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APPENDIX. 


ADVERTISEMENTS. 


A  few  ■«!■  of  the  reports  of  (he  hr»t  four  Conventions  of  Christian  Workers 
in  the  United  States  and  Canada  have  not  yet  been  sold  and  can  be  obtained  for 
tliree  dollars  per  set  by  addressing  Bureau  of  Supplies,  First  National  Bank 
iluilding,  New  Haven,  Conn.  These  books  can  be  bound  together,  making  one 
volume  of  moderate  sixe,  but  containing  about  one  thousand  pages  of  the  most 
iiisiruciive  and  entertaining  reading  that  a  Christian  worker  can  obtain.  Plates 
were  made  of  the  fourth  Report,  but  there  are  no  plates  of  the  Arst  three  Reports, 
so  that  when  the  edition  is  exhausted  of  either  o.  them  no  more  complete  sets  can 
be  obtained.  These  books  have  a  permanent  value  far  beyond  what  would  be 
believed  by  one  who  has  not  read  them,  and  those  desiring  them  should  order, 
at  once,  as  i(  is  not  probable  that  they  will  ever  be  reprinted,  and  thus  no  full  set 
can  be  obtained  after  the  edition  of  any  one  of  the  books  Is  disposed  of.  They 
will  undoubtedly  be  worth  at  any  time  In  the  future  as  much  if  not  more  than 
they  are  nbw  sold  (or,  and  those  having  copies  who  may  wish  to  dispose  of  them 
two  or  three  years  hence  can  undoubtedly  tind  a  ready  sale  for  them. 

I.  The  Report  of  the  first  Convention  (Chicago,  III.,  eight  days,  June  16-33, 
1886),  contains  about  one  hundred  and  tifty  pages,  portraits  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  C.  Stebbins,  Elder  Rufus  Smith,  Florence  Crittenton,  Jerry  McAuley 
and  a  very  valuable  appendix  of  printed  helps  for  Christian  work.  Some  of  the 
subjects  reported  and  discussed  were:  [t.]  "  Religious  Statistics" — how  to  ob- 
tain rapidly  and  at  small  expense  the  religious  condition  of  a  city,  [a,]  "  How 
to  Get  and  Hold  Children  in  Sunday  School,"  Rev.  J.  M.  Hitchcock. 
[3.]  "Oversight  of  Church  Members,"  Rev.  A.  F.  SchaufHer.  [4.]  "  The  Ideal 
Church,"  Hon.  John  V.  Farwell.  [5.]  "  How  to  Deal  with  Inquirers."  [6.] 
"  The  Chicago  Avenue  Church."  (Plans  and  methods  of  work  in  Mr.  Moody's 
Chicago  church).  One  of  the  chief  values  of  this  Report,  as  in  fact  all  of  the 
Reports,  is  in  the  answers  to  questions  and  the  suggestions  which  come  out  in 
the  handling  of  each  subject.  This  Report  has  an  additional  value  in  the 
appendix  of  "  printed  helps  in  Christian  work."  This  append i.v  contains:  [i.J 
A  Christiar.  i  Ife  Card,  which  has  been  prepared  by  Mr.  Torrey  and  is  a  very  use- 
ful little  can:  with  a  large  number  of  most  helpful  texts  to  be  given  to  those  jus' 
entering  the  Christian  life,  [a.]  A  Sunday  school  Album  with  full  descriptions  as 
to  how  it  may  be  made  in  an  inexpensive  manner  and  directions  as  to  its  use.  [3.] 
The  Penny  Ticket  used  by  Rev.  A.  F.  SchaufHer  in  his  Sunday  school  and  which  is 
given  to  children  for  prompt  attendance  at  Sunday  school  or  in  any  other  way  as 
a  reward  and  which  may  be  exchanged  for  Bibles,  singing  books  or  placed  in  the 
contribution.  [4.]  Admission  Memorandum  used  in  Sunday  school.  [$.]  Parents' 
Certificate  signed  by  parents  of  children  who  attend  a  mission  school  and  who 
are  thus  interested  to  encourage  their  children  to  attend  faithfully.  [6.]  The 
rules  for  a  Penny  Savings  Bank.  [7.]  Member's  Residence  and  Attendance 
Card  used  by  Dr.  George  F.  Pentecost  in  keeping  oversight  of  his  large  member- 
ship, when  pastor  of  the  Tompkins  Avenue  Congregational  Church,  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.  [8.]  Order  of  exercises  in  Sunday  school,  which  gives  variety  and  brings 
in  Scripture  frequently,  and  affords  opportunity  for  the  members  of  the  Sunday 
school  to  learn  difierent  selections  of  the  Scripture  to  be  repeated  from  time  to 
time.  [9.]  The  blank  leaf  of  a  Record  Book  to  be  used  in  a  mission  school  by 
which  a  thorough  record  may  be  kept  of  a  pupil,  number  of  times  punctual,  per. 
feet  lessons,  when  he  joins  the  church,  etc.,  for  eight  years,  and  all  on  a  single 
page.     [10.]  Rules  for  marking  records  and  keeping  the  average  standing  o( 


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pupils  in  Sunday  Schuitl.  The  manner  of  marking  records  is  that  used  by  Dr. 
Schsuifler  In  the  Ullvel  Sunday  school.  The  Appendix  Is  alone  well  worth  the 
price  of  (he  book.     Price  per  copy,  (postage  paid)  tAirty  ctnts. 

II.  The  Second  Convention,  Broadway  Tabernacle,  New  York,  eight  days, 
September  at-38,  1887.  It  is  a  book  uf  over  three  hundred  pages  and  contains  In 
addition  to  addresses  and  papers,  a  stenographic  report  of  questions,  answers  and 
short  addresses,  which  followed  the  longer  addresses  ;  also  several  portraits  and 
cuts  of  mission  buildings.  There  are  over  fifty  papers  and  addresses  of  consider- 
able length  on  practical  topics  relating  to  mission  work  among  the  classes  not 
reached  by  the  ordinary  ministrations  of  the  church.  The  following  are  some  of 
the  subjects:  [t.]  "Ministerial  Training;  Its  Defects  and  Remedies,"  Rev. 
John  H.  Denison,  I).  D.  \2.]  "What  can  the  Ordinary  Church  do  to  Win  the 
Masses?"  Rev.  David  Allen  Reed.  [3,]  "The  McAII  Mission  Methods  and 
their  Application  to  American  Cities,"  Rev,  A.  F.  Beard,  D.  D.,  and  Rev.  JosLih 
Strong,  D.  D.  U-]  "The  Ideal  Church  for  the  People,"  Rev.  A.  T.  Pierson, 
D.  D.  [5.]  "The  Boys' Club,"  Rev.  John  C.  Collins.  [6.J  "The  Training  of 
Theological  Smdenis  in  Mission  Work,"  Rev.  A.  F.  Schautfler,  D.  D.  [7.] 
"  The  Housing  of  the  Poor  in  Relation  to  Christian  Work,"  Rev.  Lyman  Abbott, 
D.  D.  [8.j  "The  Juvenile  Penny  Savings  Bank  for  Mission  Sunday  Schools," 
Rev.  John  C.  Collins.  [(}.]  "  Open  Air  Meetings,"  Rev.  R.  A.  Torrey.  [to.] 
"Do  we  Need  Churches  or  Missions,  or  both  in  City  Evangelization?"  Rev. 
Graham  Taylor,  D.  D.  [11.]  "Our  Foreign  Mission  Field  at  Home,  its  Extent 
and  Imiortance,  the  DifBcully  and  Practicability  of  Working  it,"  Rev.  H.  A. 
Schauffier.  [la.]  "The  New  York  Working  Girls'  Association,"  Misi  Grace  H. 
Dodge.  [13.]  "  IIow  to  Conduct  a  Gospel  Meeting,"  Rev.  S.  P.  Holcombe.  [14.] 
"How  to  Conduct  a  Children's  Service,"  Rev.  E.  Payson  Hammond.  [15.] 
"Tent  Work,"  Rev.  T.  C.  Horton.  [16.]  "Woman's  Work  for  Women  in 
Police  Courts  and  Jails,"  Mrs.  J.  K.  Barney.     Price,  one  dollar  per  copy. 

III.  Third  Convention,  Detroit,  Mich.,  six  days,  Nov.  ij-ao,  1888.  It  con- 
tains two  hundred  and  twenty  pages.  This  Report  in  addition  to  containing  very 
many  helpful  suggestions  and  treated  under  the  various  headings  is  perhaps  more 
spiritual  than  any  of  the  other  Reports,  and  the  reader  will  get  a  greater  benefit 
ill  this  respect  through  this  Report  than  he  would  probably  obtain  through  the 
others,  Although  each  of  the  books  will  give  a  great  spiritual  uplift,  which  it  does 
not  seem  possible  could  be  obtained  through  the  mere  reading  of  a  book.  The 
life  of  the  Convention  seems  to  have  been  put  into  the  Reports  in  a  very  remark- 
able manner.  In  fact,  the  word  "  report,"  which  represents  in  the  minds  of 
many  a  book  of  statistics  and  the  like,  does  not  give  any  real  idea  of  what  these 
books  are.  The  following  are  a  few  of  the  subjects :  [i.]  "  The  Caste  Spirit 
as  a  Hindrance  to  City  Evangelization,"  Rev.  C.  R.  Henderson.  [2.]  "What 
Can  be  Done  to  Enlist  the  Churches  in  Local  Evangelization?"  Rev.  A.  T.  Pier- 
son,  D.  D.  [3.]  "  Christian  Liviig,"  Mrs.  J.  K.  Barney  and  Rev.  A.  T.  Pier- 
son.  [4.]  "  Social  and  Entertainment  Accessories  in  Christian  Work,"  Rev.  A. 
T.  Pierson,  D.  D.  [5.]  "Certain  Phases  of  Woman's  Place  and  Work,"  Miss 
Grace  H.  Dodge.  [6.]  "  How  to  Develop  and  Nurse  Mission  Converts,"  Rev. 
S.  P.  Holcombe.  [7-1  "  How  to  Get  the  Unconverted  to  Attend  Churches  and 
Missions,"  Col.  George  R.  Clarke.  [8.]  "Conversion  of  Children,"  Rev.  E.  P. 
^ammond.  [9.]  "  The  Christisa  Worker  and  the  Word  of  God,"  Rev.  R.  A. 
torrey.  [10 ]  "The  Secret  of  Power  in  Christian  Work,"  Rev,  R.  A.  Torrey. 
[11.]  "The  Pastor  as  an  Evangelist  and  Teacher,  or  How  a  Pastor  May  Promote 
Revivals,  and  Build  up  Converts,"  Rev.  W.  H.  Bntrick.  Price,  snenty-fivt 
e'ents  per  copy. 


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